I’ve been calling the Department of Homeland Security Der Heimatssicherheitsdienst since day 1. Its conduct since inception has been despicable, and that name is so utterly, well, as James Fallows of the Atlantic just put it, teutono-Soviet .

I couldn’t have said it better.

He suggests Department of Civil Security.

It might be fantasy, hope against hope & all that, but maybe, just maybe function might follow form and we’d get more civilized behavior out of this Stalinistic organization if it had a more civilized name.