Talking of losing perspective ....

[Kathryn]

I thought banning hoodies was an example of the idiots in charge having
nothing to do, but at least those idiots only run a shopping mall!

http://news.yahoo
com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050526/ap_on_fe_st/yearbook_prank 

The Secret Service investigated a high school year book after one of the
students was given the title "Most likely to assassinate President Bush".
The year book was recalled by the faculty and the ffending caption covered
with black marker pen. The Secret Service says that they had to investigate
because it's their job to investigate all threats to the President. Now this
tells me that one (or more) of these things is true -

a) The terrorist threat has clearly been greatly exaggerated if all Shrub
has to worry about is a group of teenagers with a slightly offbeeat sense of
humour;

b) The Secret Service employs far more agents than is necessary and some of
them are consequently really desperate to find something to do;

or c) The Secret Service could do with a few lessons in prioritizing.

If this sort of thing grabs their attention so fast (and I would point out
the school had only had time to distribute 100 year books before the Secret
Service got involved) then I have to wonder what kind of resources they
dedicate to persistent threats - like Michael Moore and chat show hosts!

K