Been trying to come up with a couple of entries about two of the big news items everyone’s talking about today. Namely that Joe Lieberman lost his primary election, but has sworn to run anyway as an Independent, and the big terrorist plot in the U.K. to blow up planes using some form of explosive gel mixed in bottles of sports drinks set off by MP3 players or cellphones.
Alas, at the moment, I don’t have a whole lot to say on either topic other than I’m very happy to hear Joe Loserman Lieberman lost, but it’s too early to celebrate until he loses the November election, and I’m very happy to hear that we managed to stop people from blowing up some planes. So consider this a semi-open thread to say whatever comes to mind on these two topics.
How about the reader(s) of Boing-boing who asked, “If these guards are confiscating potentially explosive liquids, why are they pouring them into a large plastic garbage can in the middle of the airport crowd?”
An excellent question indeed, considering a quick internet search will show that some of these liquid explosives are designed to spontaneously explode when mixed.
Maybe that story about the guy who got killed trying to open a rocket-propelled granade with a sledgehammer was actually a story about an airport security ordinance disposal worker…