I’m never going to find time to make a post for each of these links. It must be time for a link dump. All news stories this time.

Returning from a vacation to Germany in February, freelance journalist Bill Hogan was selected for additional screening by customs officials at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. Agents searched his luggage, he said, “then they told me that they were impounding my laptop.”

Traveling across American borders with electronic devices gets more interesting all the time.

Someone looks into the origins of the email about Obama that continues to make the rounds for months; the one that has convinced too many people that Obama is some kind of Muslim Manchurian candidate. Long story, but a good read.

After getting chewed out by a 10-year-old for using environmentally unfriendly lunch trays, the Houston Independent School District has agreed to go a little greener.

The school board is expected to vote Thursday to spend an extra $160,000 on about 12.5 million biodegradable trays for elementary students this coming school year. Secondary schools will follow in coming months.

After reading the first two sentences of the story, I had to ask myself why any school would need 12.5 million lunch trays per year of any sort at all, let alone biodegradable ones. I was then informed that the lunch trays I remember, some metal and some plastic, that were used, stacked up, and then washed, those lunch trays have been replaced with lunch trays that are thrown away after one use. Now, how stupid is that?

“We need to be able to stop somebody who we know is a terrorist from getting on the plane. It’s not too much to ask, to say, just tell us who you are,” Kip Hawley with TSA said.

Because, of course, terrorists are going to have ID that identifies them as such, and they will answer “yes” when asked if they are terrorists. It’s never going to be “too much to ask” until it is too much to ask and it’s far to late to regain freedom and rights. Having to show ID to travel within the borders of my own country is disgusting.

Lead in artificial turf. I important to read about. I’ll be avoiding contact with artificial turf. More here.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colleyville church Friday saying that church members involved in a traumatic exorcism that ultimately injured a young woman are protected by the First Amendment.

I’ve been wondering if the next time someone gets pushy trying to save my soul, if I could smack them up side the head and call it “an ecclesiastical dispute over religious conduct.” I doubt it. I’m pretty sure I disagree withe the Texas Supreme Court on this one, but I haven’t been keeping up with this case. Still, it leaves me feeling somewhat uneasy.

That’ll do for now. I can see my desktop again, and I can close my browser. The rest of the links I may still feel like ranting about tomorrow.