Friday, August 3, 2007

Is US Homeland Security Thinking Out of the Box?

We learned the hard way in Vietnam that the tactics of war had changed. But it took a good ass kicking for us to become more adept at guerilla warfare. Since 9-11 we are searched for typical weapons; blades, guns, explosives. It wasn't until years after think tanks harped on the ease with which biological and chemical agents could make it through security that we are at least checking liquid items at security.

But are chemical and biological weapons even too conventional that we are missing yet another type of warfare? The latest scare caused by the Fisher Price recall of many of the highest selling toys found to be covered in lead paint raises a deeper concern. With the majority of American goods being made in foreign countries, isn't product tampering just another vehicle for mass terrorism?
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Water People

I've never waited a table. You wouldn't want me to. But I imagine that waiters have their own lingo and codes. My boyfriend and I were on the receiving end of what could only be the unfavorable type of customer at an expensive restaurant, the--we'll just be having water customer. It's not that one meal at M&S was out of our league, especially since it was lunch. It wasn't that soup and salad was all we could afford. If anything, the waiter could have had a bigger tip because we weren't spending as much as we're used to on dining out. Needless to say after being ignored--Nobel Prize winner Weisel says indifference is worse than being treated with anger--and complimentary bread deprived, we did not leave a tip.

So here it is now--if people order water on a Saturday afternoon it might just be because they're hung over and saving room for a friend's pasta bolognese later.