Sounds like the solution in a really weird game of "Clue," but no snark.  Unless someone within the Yahoo organization has pulled off a spoof, it appears to be real.  

The photo, attributed to photographer Ron Edmonds of AP, is on Yahoo here.

This is it. The Transportation Security Agency is an idea whose time is gone.  

You have all read of its many outrages, from the botched No-Fly ("enemies") list to mistreatment of wheel-chair-bound passengers to searches of random people on city buses.

No more of this.

Evidence is clear: This is a rogue agency. It needs to be dismantled, its managers fired, its functions pruned and parcelled out. Now.

If you have the stomach for a revolting little tale that might be straight out of Kafka, then read all about it below.  

Irony, anybody?

Under severe drought since last summer, Raleigh, N.C., may run out of water by June, according to a press release from the city government.

Meanwhile, each day 400,000 gallons of city tap water (estimated) goes into a bottling plant and comes out as a brand-name bottled water, Aquafina. Under drought restrictions, that equals the daily water consumption of more than 11,000 people.

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Missed by most other major media, Congressional Quarterly flags an actual example of warrantless wiretapping gone awry, picking it up from a New Yorker story unavailable online:

U.S. intelligence tapped the telephone calls of Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, starting in 2002.

This may well be news to many people, even though Wright revealed the taps himself in a sprawling, 15,000-word article on electronic surveillance in the Jan. 21 edition of The New Yorker magazine.

Perhaps because the article was not available online it lacked the link-juice to propel it into a frenzy over the "domestic spying" on the Web, the cable news shows and leading American newspapers.

As far as I can tell, only Pam Hess of the Associated Press picked up on Wright’s confrontation with spy chief Michael McConnell over the phone taps, and no major paper ran it.

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