Can a cartoon crush our city

Yesterday, Boston was supposedly brought to its knees by a viral marketing campaign that was effectively fancy graffiti. Maybe I'm more hip and cool than I thought because I recognized the cartoon character and thought the news story was a joke. To think the Boston bomb squads were called into action over 2-4 D-sized batteries and some LED lights is just plain stupid. I haven't seen all the data yet, but do you really think terrorists make bright, flashing bombs. If I ever need to blow up a bridge or something, I'll make sure not to disguise the bomb as a discarded cardboard box. Instead I'll make it flash wildly, so nobody notices.

Also, D-battery-sized wads of high explosive, detonated in an open area (not the same as a shaped charge or a capped bore-hole!), would do nothing. Someone who happened to touch it at the moment of explosion might get killed, but it wouldn't do much better than that. When you hear about suicide bombs going off in markets and mosques in Iraq, these involve large backpacks or even vehicles stuffed to the brim with explosives. And they still usually only manage to take out a dozen people even in a large crowd! While the average Joe may believe what they see on CSI, 24 or whatever joke of a cop drama is on this season, a real bomb-squad should have a hell of a lot better training than that.

I hope they can see this cause I'm doing it as hard as I can.

Wow, that rant got a bit long winded. Thank goodness idiocy like what happened in Boston couldn't occur here in Houston. Think again Mr. or Mrs. Condescending-Attitude-For-Those-Liberal-New Englanders. You see Houston has several running clubs that use flour to mark a course for the group. As it turns out Houston streets have been shut down numerous times due to "suspicious powdery white substances that OHMYGODITMIGHTBEANTHRAX!" The best way to spread anthrax is obviously to throw it on the ground outside, right? None of our incidents has made the National news or been a major issue for the city, but it could easily happen. All it takes it one Chicken Little with loose grip in reality and the whole bogus "We have to take every threat seriously" Homeland Security behemoth will swing it to action on the evening news.