On 2005-01-13T17:46:39-0800, Bill Stewart wrote:

He's smearing his sticky fingerprints all over everything else, and now he wants them in our passports? Oughtta learn to keep his hands to himself.

Fine with me if the first person to get a new biometric passport gets Ridge's fingers as part of the deal -- to verify for the world that the prints are valid. -- "War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free." -Heraclitus 53