Homeland Insecurity Department

DHS is a big only can of Pork-n-Beans, just as it was intended to be.

Homeland Insecurity Department - New York Times:

The Department of Homeland Security never really makes us feel all that safe.

A government list of potential terrorist targets that came to light recently is only comforting if the roundup is intended, by its very absurdity, to confound the enemy into total inaction. Among other theoretically threatened places included in the federal antiterrorism database are a provincial petting zoo, an Amish popcorn factory and such backwater assets as a tackle shop, a check casher, a doughnut maker, a flea market and, in the case of one community, a 'Beach at End of a Street.'

One's first instinct is to guffaw at this odd collection of assets whose 'criticality,' in the words of the department's own inspector general, 'is not readily apparent.'