Flying from LA to Chicago is suspicious, thinks DOJ. So they can nab somebody's cash in the Orwellian "asset forfeiture."

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/659854415713714176

WaPo story on this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/30/if-you-fly-between-chicago-and-l-a-you-might-be-a-drug-dealer-according-to-the-dea/

Republican candidate Ben Carson believes that scientists who say UFOs came down to help build the pyramids are full of crap.

Since the DEA is in the discussion agenda, let's take a look at the wild assumptions by which the head of that august agency lives - and wants us to believe.

Yikes.

Tim Blair on taxis and Uber:

Every time I get to feeling sorry about taxi drivers and their Uber-disrupted industry, I take a ride in a Sydney taxi.

This instantly cures me of any sadness and instead makes me think that Uber drivers are not only justified in destroying the taxi business, but that Uber drivers should also be allowed to throw taxi drivers out of their houses and sell their children into slavery. A back-to-back comparison this weekend was especially illuminating.

Author flies on United, discovers their onboard wifi is blocking his own website. Hilarity ensues when he asks why?

One wit asks if he accidentally got on a United (Arab Emirates) flight. Response no, they serve meals.

The Brits tried to collapse the Revolution by issuing countefeit Continental currency. One flaw?

Often the fake currency could be easily spotted because it was of higher quality than the legitimate bills. The paper was usually a higher quality and the engraving was of a much higher quality on the professionally done counterfeits.

Loved this. Lesser-known trolley problem variations.

https://li.st/l/6pq7iywEFK2Fkhscyb9OhJ

Faves: Cancer researcher one and Bentham/Kant. (Problem on that one is how to off both, as somebody noted on Twitter.)