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"91 breaches. We've had 91 breaches of Secret Service security."

"In a row?"

So, yeah, this article is tangentially related to those latest White House gate-crashers, the Salahis, but it also mentions Handshake Man, who has purportedly gotten past the Secret Service four times.

really?

Apparently, it is the night of "customers who were in here once at some point in the dim past who seem to think I should remember them".

Edit: Jesus Christ, he's 30 feet away, and I can still smell the reek of cigarette smoke.

I'm on the side of the old lady

See, I don't get e-readers. I mean, why would I want something with a tiny-ass screen so it's difficult to read, that can lose battery power so I can't read anything on it, and that I'd have to re-buy any books I wanted to read on it?

The argument for them goes something like "but you can put dozens of books on it instead of carrying around dozens of books". Well, yes, that would be an advantage IF I felt the need to normally carry dozens of books around. Shockingly, I don't haul dozens of books around, or have a team of sherpas to carry a large literary assortment.

Plus, even the cheap ones are a couple hundred bucks. Now, this doesn't make sense to me. "But it's new technology!" No, it's not. We have had these things called laptops for a number of years now. Why would I want to pay more for the junior woodchuck version that I can only read books on? (Yes, there's a version of the Kindle that runs more then some laptops. Why? I haven't the slightest clue.)