*shrug
we should also do gun checks at schools for white kids (since they've had a history of shooting) crackdowns on asians for gang membership, and siftouts for gawky freckly faced redheads for chronic masturbation.
maybe i was too young to recall, but i don't remember any talk of racial profiling post Oklahoma City, nor after IRA attacks.
in any case the truth of the matter is racial profiling has been in use and will probably stay in use -whether or not it's effective at all and what effects it has on our civil liberties at all is a whole other argument that doesn't always translate to the people "enforcing security" on the ground level.

"by the way, you should search 5 brown guys for every 'grandmother from Poughkeepsie' because I have a statistic that says that brown guys are more likely to blow shit up, and everyone knows that statistics represent the absolute and unadulterated truth"

Obviously statistics aren't the absolute and unadulterated truth, however, brown guys are more likely to blow shit up. Is that a racist statement? Probably. Does it make it any less true? No. It doesn't mean non-brown guys can't blow shit up. But really, as of late anyway, it's brown guys. I'm not saying we should persecute all brown guys because some of them are blowing shit up. That would be rediculous. However searching a 'grandmother from Poughkeepsie' just to make the argument that they're not racially profiling is equally rediculous.
And indeed, I would also agree with this argument if it were predominantly white guys blowing shit up. I'm sure I would be annoyed to no extent by constantly being searched, but I would understand the search strategy.

It's called "mixing up your profiles": New York apologises after Britons seized in security scare.

This doesn't worry me. Not at all. Especially not when other ideas like this are presented:

Overwhelming odds are that the guy bent on blowing up your train traces his origins to the Islamic belt stretching from Mauritania to Indonesia.

Yet we recoil from concentrating bag checks on men who might fit this description. Well, if that is impossible for us to do, then let's work backward. Eliminate classes of people who are obviously not suspects.

We could start with a little age pruning -- no one under, say, 13, and no one over, say, 60. Then we could exempt whole ethnic populations, a list that could immediately start with Hispanics, Scandinavians and East Asians. Then we could have a huge saving, a 50 percent elimination of waste, by giving a pass to women, except perhaps the most fidgety, sweaty, suspicious-looking, overcoat-wearing, knapsack-bearing young woman, to be identified by the presiding officer.

I'd just like to say that Andrew Thompson is brilliant. Not like that fucking useless bastard Andrew Thompson.

This is interesting: Nanotechnology kills cancer cells. They get cancer cells to take up carbon nanotubules and then literally burn the cancer away. And, what's more, no grey goo is required.

fuck video games man, let's play art gamm!!
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the laugh free zone dude should have flipped it into some WTC gag, that woudda fuckin' KILLED!!

Some of the good quotes about Soul Plane:

"A third of the way into Soul Plane, maybe earlier if you're in the right mood or with the wrong company, you might actually start to enjoy disliking the movie."

"a lot wittier than the last two "Scary Movies" combined."

"makes up for what it lacks in genuine humor by overdosing viewers with outrageous sexuality and outsize stereotypes."

"when it works, laughs are generated."

"This one-joke comedy vehicle is flying through a laugh-free zone."

"While this flight should have been permanently delayed due to extraordinarily offensive conditions, there are no signs instructing you to remain seated should you decide to discreetly exit before your tour of the unfriendly skies is over."

"Let's make this simple: If you spend money on Soul Plane, you've been played."

Yo Taylor man, your girl made it on Vice's 156 TENS (their choice for hottest chicks from cobrasnake)
the only questionable choice was Kelly Osborne- but she recently dropped a pretty good record so i guess we'll let it pass

the greatest movie of all time

yo taylor did you know there's a fairly new comic place that popped up on 124th? (kinda by Chu's restaraunt) and i believe they had a Comic Jam recently there. i can't remember the name, but Burwash says it's pretty cool - and the dude that did their window lettering i think tried to rip off the Listen lettering...or maybe that was another place on 124th... shrug