Is this supposed to be reassuring?

Whew! For a moment there I thought someone stole the information for nefarious purposes. No shake-up at the agency is anticipated:

Wasn't her fault, after all. The OPM agency head explains away the lack of security thus:

That's a relief. The horses are out and gone and the barn burned down and the bank repossessed the farm, but they're working to effect a strategy to optimize the procedure for prioritizing the process for requisitioning a new lock for the door. Here's the part that makes some people wonder whether the level of stupidity at the agency has created a new standard against which all other stupidity will be judged. Arstechnica:

Yes. China had root. In the real world, this is the look you might be given if you had to tell your boss you gave China root.

THE HORROR Newsweek sent a brave fellow to drive one of the loneliest stretches of road in the land. You may recall yesterday's quote about journalists's dislike of malls may color their reporting; well, here's another bit of self-admission that makes you wonder why you should read the nine billion words that follow.

Speak for yourself, lad. Everything is bad now, but don't fear: even before the new age of wonders dawns, they can ruin that too.

As opposed to the pleasureless dread of today. Well, if you're interested, the fellow survives the drive across the desert's loneliest stretch. It's 297 miles. That's like, oh, Stillwater to Fargo.

LAW Fusion has a line that sums up where we are as a culture: "Three years ago, we didn't have a broadly-accepted term for the category of sex tape Hulk Hogan was featured in." No, we certainly didn't. More on why the Hulk Hogan case is do-or-die for the internet snark factory, here. Gawker's founder says this is about principles. Those deeply held Gawker principles.

Quite a nice philosophical continuum you've got there, Nick. Shame if anything . . . .happened to it.