March 27, 2008

Today’s Fail is brought to you by the letters G.P.O. (298 v. 2)

Remember those new e-Passports we had to have right away or the terrists would win? (I can’t believe I’m linking to the Washington Times for non-snark related reasons):
The Times reported yesterday that the GPO chose two European computer chip makers over U.S. manufacturers to make tens of millions of electronic passports. The passports are being assembled [...]

March 27, 2008

Young Guns (298)

Right, so here’s the set up. A young democracy needs weapons to keep the bad guys from taking control again. So what does bAdmin. do? It gives the contract for supplying weapons to a bunch of young people. Who in turn give the young democracy really old weapons and ammo (via The New York Times):
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