HOMELAND SECURITY IS A (SOMETIMES CRUEL) JOKE — and Tom Maguire notes that it’s been that way since before Andrew Sullivan and Matt Yglesias started to pay attention.

I actually remember something like that happening to an English graduate student and his family who lived across the street from us at Holden Green when I was a kid.

Plus, this crucial distinction: “In fascism, you’re persecuted because of who you are and who your parents were. In an American airport, you’re persecuted because you’re there.”