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01 February 2007 - 23:42

snow covered plains

Okay, we're back to images of wide open spaces blanketed in white:

Yes, Tuesday morning was a gorgeous flight. Not the most productive, since other places were blown free of snow and hence those elk nigh impossible to find, but still. Fun.

Weather permitting, we go again tomorrow morning. Right now, we're bitter cold, and expected to get colder (-20+).

And now, on a totally unrelated note:

This is one of those entries you just know you shouldn't write, but hey, I just gotta.

About the news in Boston. You know, those "suspicious packages" that threw that metropolis into a panic.

Let's see... where to start.

First, let us point out there is nothing suspicious looking about those illegal electronic graffiti devices at all. They're high tech Lite-Brites, for crying out loud, people. A circuit board with a cartoon image made of LEDs. Unless terrorists have figured out how to blow up bridges with explosives the size and appearance of four D-cell batteries.

Second, let us point out that, after blowing one up, the Boston PD had the pieces of one safely in hand, and yet they continued claiming these were "bomb-like" devices.

Third, after removing not one, not four, not five, but nine of these unlicensed little billboards, they still claimed they were a "terrorist hoax".

Four, let us remember these things were up in Boston for weeks before the city's panic attack, with the majority of the New England citizens looking at them and wisely seeing them for what they were, which is night-time graffiti. Items not even worth the trouble of a call or email to City Hall to complain about.

Five, lastly, let us point out these same "devices" have been lighting up little corners of city structures in nine other major US cities for weeks, and not one of those cities had a panic attack. Not one city thought of them as anything more than what they were... miniature unlicensed electronic billboards.

So now, Massachusetts is criminally charging two artist promoters responsible for the battery-operated Lite-Brite signs because the city spent a half-million dollars in police resources on this "bomb scare".

Well, folks, those two guys didn't waste a half-million of the taxpayers' dollars.

You did.

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