Found in my mail archive:

Every time I turn around there’s another “small price to pay” in the name of some drooler’s feel-good mis-attempt to solve a non-problem. Got no patience for it anymore.

(The one that peeved me most recently was the rule against flying anonymously – a small price to pay to discourage those few suicidal terrorists too inept to arrange for false papers.)

I wrote that last August 15.

“Too much security is scarier than dirtbags”, from Joe Soucheray of Pioneer Press, through Glenn Reynolds by way of Swen.

Years ago when my main outlet was APA-L, I predicted (in response to a grumble from Fred Patten, if memory serves, about the proliferation of lowbrow magazines) that, thanks to the falling costs of publication, the number of niche periodicals would grow enormously; and that an interesting article in Model Train Coupling Quarterly might be reprinted not only in Model Trains Week but also in The Journal of Real Train Couplings.

And, of course, it is happening. The Blog Scene (which I’ve been reading only for a few months) seems a bit more inbred than it needs to be, but still it exposes me to plenty of good stuff that I wouldn’t see otherwise, and what more can one ask?