Kieran Healy

Drones Club

In the news down here right now is a proposal to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border using unmanned aerial drones. Which gives rise to this quote:

Robert Bonner, commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, told the House Select Committee on Homeland Security on Monday that it makes sense to conduct a pilot program using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.

A pilot program for drones. I love dead metaphors.

Is this the drone technology we confiscated from Iraq?

I’m glad to see that a pilot program for drones is in the driver’s seat. I’m on board for that.

I’d already heard this story from high level mole in the department of defence.

And shortly after I posted the above comment, CNN.com’s headline read “Diplomats Try To Put Road Map On Track.” Alas, I failed to take a screen shot before they changed it to some other story. But I’m sure all right-thinking people are on board for the road map.