The "it" it might kill could also mean "boatloads of Chinese immigrants." It looks like this thing has a 2 inch draught, so maybe it could even make it in the Rio Grande in the wet season. Used to make sure "bad people don't get in" (that's a technical term), in the words of its salesman, in this inexplicably long and needlessly dumb TV news clip from the 6th Annual Border Security Expo in sunny downtown Phoenix.

Have you ever worked at a place where everyone's head may be on the executioner's block? (Sure you have! Or did!) Then you know that only the strong and/or the sycophantic survive. But there are things in our near future more serious than being jobless! Such as being exterminated. The film director McG, and his friend the actor Christian Bale, understand that we, humanity, are all about to be "laid off." ("You're fired!") They have tried and failed, with their film Terminator Salvation, which is basically Terminator v. Predator: Full Throttle, to curry favor with the future. I will do better! I understand that in the near future, all writing [...]