Big Brother Suffers a Blow...

Apparently, the U.S. government has (contrary to Bush's hopes) abandoned efforts to track foreign visitors who leave the U.S. I would ask how much hubris the administration has to track every foreign visitor who leaves, but I already know the answer. I definitely would love to hear that conversation:

"Well, Roberts, what do we have?"

"Well, sir, a bunch of French returned to France, some British went back to Britain, a lot of Japanese left for Japan on the West Coast, Canadians crossed into Canada, and by and large, people from Latin America flew south."

The sheer idiocy of this reminds me of a Monty Python's Flying Circus line - "I would put a tax on all foreigners living abroad."