how much is your vote worth?

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/11/15/0520209.shtml
referencing
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6892.html

Of course, if some are willing to sell their vote for an iPod, then the people who are willing to sell their lifetime vote for a million dollars may actually be on to something: they could buy as many votes as they wanted just on the income. *wry smile*

It seems likely to me that some of the answers to the survey would change if it were for real...but it's still somewhat disturbing.

TSA cheats on tests of its systems?

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/15/tsa-warns-tsa-to-be.html
referencing
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-screeners15nov15,1,784508.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&track=crosspromo

Can anyone point to a single concrete improvement in either security or in traveler convenience that has appeared since the TSA took over security checks? Anything at all?

I am trying not to let myself be swayed by rhetoric.

Because, you know, talk is cheap and all that.

But, damn:

http://stateoftheunion.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/jefferson-jackson-day-dinner/

It may be rhetoric, but it's at least rhetoric that I'm happy to be hearing right about now.