For those of you wishing you still had secret clearance, Defensetech, the blog of defense news.

I am apparently equally (un)knowledgable about Republican and Democratic minutiae. I don’t know what the resolution of their scale is, but they show me squarely in the middle of their spectrum. They give the answers and scoring, but I didn’t have the requisite ambition to find out how my several guesses affected the results.

Maybe there’s more to the story — revenge, perhaps? — or maybe Rumanian urologists don’t get enough training in leaving the frank alone while messing with the beans.

Union songs, from historical to new, from rousing to stupid!

note: One of the songs listed in the first source seems to have been rather unevenly copied. A more believable rendition is here. One might have to take this first archive with a grain of union salt.

I find it hard to take seriously any claims that we have a legitimate need to keep secret the names of everybody rounded up in the post-11 September foolishness when federal sources are falling all over themselves to reveal what seem to me to be very pertinent details about an ongoing "very sensitive" investigation.

The lovely and talented Ursula points me at Scam o Rama, where you can get the scoop on scammers and (counter-)scamming.

So there are databases of unclaimed property in every state, and that property is everything from insurance payouts to bank accounts and more. I used to think that I could be a valiant info-warrior and find money for people, but mostly people (perhaps with good reason) think you are trying to scam them. Perhaps I will post information on how to find this money along with the names of the people, in case they google themselves.

The Greyhound bus service is eliminating a bunch of stops from its routes. For people without the option to drive, this bites. As more of the population ages past the point where driving is a good idea, I hope we’ll remember why public (rather than privatized, who can trim unprofitable services) transportation is worth the cost-balancing it does between the high and low volume stops.

Unfortunately, we probably wouldn’t be able to tour it, but the Adult Swim Factory sounds like a cool place. I guess I’ll have to settle for watching its product, when I remember.
It’s a shame the reviewer is uninformed about things, though: since when does any network (much less Fox) have "24 hours of airtime to fill"? And, of course, he misspells Warner Bros., but so do a lot of folks. And how does this get by fact-checking: "Other networks, noticing the success of Adult Swim, have attempted to usurp its popularity by launching mature-themed programs of their own. Comedy Central jumped into the fray with 2003’s Kid Notorious…" Has he not heard of South Park?

It’s apparently possible to scam 419 scammers, including getting them to do silly things, and even send money(!).