♫ Freedom's just another word.../...fer takin' off yer shoes ♫

Radley Balko | September 18, 2008

Last June, the TSA changed the name of its main hub in Herndon, Virginia to the "Freedom Center."

The new name was apparently chosen from an agency-wide competition.

Which means that in addition to being creepily and predictably Orwellian, the government agency in charge of preventing another terrorist attack in our country's transportation system also suffers from a disturbing lack of creativity.