No new thing

An email I received:

You conclude your hopefully satirical blog post 'A Radical Security Proposal', which suggests that terror attacks be foiled by requiring airline passengers to travel without luggage and lightly clad, with...

You read it first on normblog.

You didn't?!

I didn't! The plot of Robert A. Heinlein's SF novel The Puppet Masters deals with humanity's battle against mind-controlling, sluglike parasites who tend to ride their human hosts between the shoulder blades. When this is discovered, the authorities order 'Schedule Bareback', with the citizenry required to go about stripped to the waist. When a woman properly nude above the waist is discovered with a slug in her handbag and attached to her wrist, 'Schedule Bareback' is replaced by 'Schedule Suntan': mandatory total nudity.

Ecclesiastes 1.9: 'The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.'