Best line of the day, so far

“In an exclusive poll I once conducted among fellow [airline] passengers, I found that 80 percent favored forcing Mr. Reid to sit next to the metal detector, helping small children put their sneakers back on.”

John Tierney in The New York Times in a column arguing that Internet hackers deserve a punishment worse than death. Mr. Reid, of course, is the would-be shoe bomber that brought about the removal of shoes in airport security lines.