A Billion Details and No Precedent—An Inside Look at the TSA’s Scrambling Start
Building the TSA from scratch in the months following 9/11 seemed an insurmountable task, unrivaled in both scope and size. In Permanent Emergency, former TSA administrator Kip Hawley vividly reconstructs the breakneck pace at which this gargantuan security agency came about and how it came to be an institutional clusterf*ck. I arrived in Washington in…
This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Shit Girls Say About Girls
Girls! It’s the hottest show about mopey early twenties hipster women staring David Mamet’s daughter since forever. And even though not that many people are watching it, people cannot… stop… talking about it. And by “people” I mean other mopey early twenties hipster women. Enjoy! The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including a…
I Am the One Who Clicks Banner Ads
Advertisements pay our bills here, but man, do people really click on them? Our friends at McSweeney’s found the guy who does. For many years, I have remained a presence in the shadows. You citizens of the Internet have gone about your lives, navigating to this page and that, reading articles, watching videos, exchanging messages…
