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In the middle of this much longer dream, I was in this group of various people running around this sort of shopping neighborhood in a college town, and there was this floor to ceiling ad on one of the buildings for other dreams. Specifically something along the lines of "dream of being a major character in the cast of your favorite show", or something, against a life-sized bridge scene from ST:TNG. I did not follow this up (since, like, something was happening - details are fuzzy now) but I love the idea of in-dream advertisements for other possible dreams. And the amusement was part of the dream, like, I knew I was dreaming at the time... I can't remember what other shows they listed, alas.

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So if the TSA is so messed up (as this article describes (I particularly like the boomerang story, scroll down a bit for it)), what can be done about it? Somehow I doubt Kerry would have the balls to roll it all back (or just disband the thing). Is there any politically plausible but productive reform?

Vaguely interesting thing here about disagreement over immigration policy in the Sierra Club. Which seems sort of weird to me, because immigration is just a redistribution of population, and wouldn't any adverse impacts here be offset by reduced impacts where the immigrants are coming from, not to mention which industrialized countries may actually be more set up to handle population increases, and giving more people access to American-level health care and reproductive freedom seems like it would tend to slow down population growth if anything... I don't know, it just seems weird to me. (For what it's worth, the Sierra Club position on population growth seems entirely sensible to me, which I guess makes me a "neo-Malthusian" too. I'm not really sure how one can avoid coming to the conclusion that quality of life and birth rate seem to be,er, somewhat negatively correlated on the national level, but apparently that makes me "pessimistic about technology". Who knew.)

Also, I did not know that the cofounder of Greenpeace was now a biotech advocate. Go him, though! I want to see those ads he talks about at the end.