Sitting at the gate awaiting my flight. On the airport wireless because…well, I'm me. And over the PA I hear (paraphrased) "Folks, I know there's a lot of people in the gate area waiting for standby seats. And I want to let you know that the chances are slim to none that that's gonna happen. The Pope was in town this weekend and everybody came in to see him and now they're trying to get home again. Your own hope is that there are people who checked in at home on their computers and we don't know if they're actually here at the airport or not. So as Jesse Jackson says, 'Keep hope alive!'"

As a P.S. to the coda, there was a booth at Comic-Con that was selling Exorcism Kits. "The Pope needs your help!" Priceless.

The last time I was at Radio City Music Hall, it was for their Xmas spectacular. Let's hope they have camels tonight like they did then. Because that would be pretty sweet.

I'll post a picture later.

Overheard on the R train in NYC:

"It's about an old depressed cat and her friends put her in a tire and shoot her to heaven."

Looking forward to the Overheard in NYC book as well.

And I'd like to say up front that I don't have the cojones necessary to, based on a Reuters article, claim that I'm smarter than a federal judge. But the reason, this article claims, that the subway searches are considered constitutional is they are "an effective and appropriate means to fight terrorism."

The hell they are. Go read this. And this. And come back here and tell me how this is effective. Screw appropriate. Just tell me how it's effective.

If you want effective searches, you have to search everybody and it cannot be optional. Now, how you make that legal and constitutional isn't my problem. I'm just saying: when you can opt-out at one entrance, cross the street and enter the same subway station via another entrance, you have done nothing but delay an attack by two minutes. Whoopee.

Drudge set me off.