New York: day 124

“Every time an American goes through security, I want them to pause for a moment and think, What is my government doing to inconvenience the terrorists? Rendition teams, Predator drones, assassination squads. That’s all part of it.”

—Erik Prince, former CEO of Blackwater/Xe, quoted in the current Vanity Fair.

Unrelated: The best newspapers of 2009, IMHO.