Last Week's Top 5 Hit & Run Posts

Here's what you were reading last week at Hit & Run:

Good Luck, America! by Matt Welch (10/25)

Have a Drink, Have a Heart Attack, by Jacob Sullum (10/25)

ObamaCare: Political Trouble for Moderate Democrats? by Peter Suderman (10/27)

"If government can tell us what we can put into our own bodies, what can it not tell us?" by Damon W. Root (10/26)

A First Amendment Case You Can't Talk About, by Jacob Sullum (10/28)

Comments

[Max]

Here's what you were reading last week at Hit & Run and your having read it makes you part of a tiny minority of complete assholes that swallow this shit. Have you made a donation?

[OO=====D]

You know I've made a donation. Now open wide, Max, and I'll give you another.

[heller]

I love it when Max doesn't realize that he insults himself whenever he insults the regular readers of H&R. Great cognitive dissonance there, buddy.

[OO=====D]

BTW:

WASHINGTON ? There were accusations of an executive slush fund, financial shenanigans and dictatorial management. But it was the $900,000 in secret sexual harassment payments that got the head of the nation's fourth-largest housing authority fired and had the mayor asking how the housing board missed it all.

Yet Philadelphia's isn't even close to the worst of dysfunctional housing agencies across the country that operate with no budgets, untrained staff and shoddy record-keeping, according to a review by The Associated Press of inspection and audit records of 146 housing authorities that the government considered the most troubled.

The documents show the U.S. spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year on housing authorities that don't follow financial rules or, worse, lack even the most basic policies for spending petty cash or using government credit cards.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/201.....ed_housing

[kinnath]

A little thread jack:

http://www.salon.com/technolog.....index.html

From Patrick Smith over a Salon (the only sane writer over there):

As it has happened before. One Associated Press story described last week's plot as "the latest to expose persistent security gaps in international air travel and cargo shipping nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks." I would back that up to about 1970. Again we are fed this weird idea that air crimes did not exist, or somehow weren't important, before the 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington. In fact, bombings and hijackings were comparatively rife throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and only since 2001 have things calmed down.

We've been lucky, but obviously, too, we're doing something right. And whatever that something right is, I suspect it is going on far out of view, in the secret world of intelligence gathering and international policing. Where it should be. The devices in Dubai and England were found thanks to a tip-off. Indeed, ultimately this isn't a hunt for weapons; it's about a hunt for those criminals and terrorists who would use such weapons, and the most effective way of thwarting an attack is to catch it in the earliest possible stage, before the terrorist has a chance to set his plan into motion.

Well, perhaps the TSA has figured out how to keep sophisticated bombs off aircraft by fondling guys balls.

[heller]

Patrick Smith is retarded. Doesn't she see the correlation between increases in security theater and decreases in terrorism?

Security theater is to terrorism as pirates are to global warming.

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