RE. Kelo I found O'Connor's dissent far more eloquent [Dear all: Helen and I are talking about the recent US Supreme Court decision in which the Court found it perfectly OK to condemn private property in the name of public use and sell it to a priovate developer in the name of urban renewal. See: ]http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct...04-108.ZS.html] although Thomas' law clerk wrote a wonderful dissertation on the history of the "publicf takings" clause of AM 5.

I have never had as much heartburn with so-called profiling as I am supposed to have. In context, I have to agree with police friends (I really do have a few) because if you are looking for a brown guy carrying a pack, it really makes perfectly good sense to stop all the brown guys carrying packs. Unless, of course, you are the brown guy carrying the pack full of camping gear.

I am much more distrustful of the 'random' search - as you point out, there is always a way, and nothing is 'random.'