Boston's Safe

Looks like the Boston Dirty Bombers threat was a hoax, caused by an intoxicated cab driver from Mexicali. The cabbie reportedly phoned "911 in California" to report the scheme and had tossed a package over a border fence with visas, ticket stubs and other stuff belonging to the four Chineese suspects. The kicker here, mentioned in passing in the Globe story, is that one of the suspects had been arrested on November 11, 2004, and was in custody in San Diego.

Who's on first?

While we're on the subject of Terror, I'll predict that now that GWB is re-annointed by God we'll have no more of those "code indigo" alerts. No need to feed the public paranoia. Fear is a tactic long used by the right wing to push its agenda -- what Richard Hofstadter called the "paranoid style."