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Blackadder Comic Relief

at least we all get to take our shoes off...

Don't worry if you are travelling for the holidays this year. The security checks may make for long delays, but at least they are keeping us safe.

Some of us.

Maybe as many as 40% of us. Or 30%. But possibly only 10% of us...

TSA screeners miss Red Team weapons as often as 20 times out of 22 at Newark airport. LAX somewhat safer, O'Hare best with only 45 successful attempts out of 75 to pass weapons through security.

Blackadder is really not that far off, sometimes

"George III let it be widely broadcast that he held [Whig firebrand and sometime Foreign Minister Charles James] Fox principally responsible for the Prince’s many failings, not least a tendency to vomit in public."

Mitchell. (2007). Charles James Fox. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. quoted in Wikipedia's article on Fox

in which our blogger is reminded how bloody hard it is to write *short*

Summarise the Second Continental Congress in 250 words. Go on, I dare you! Yes, you can just list the major documents and the major players in 100 words or so, but that leaves precious little room for context.