If you want to go fishing in any of the Great Lakes, be sure to have your passport. And to fax in all your ID info to customs an hour before you leave. And then visit customs afterward to have your photographs taken, along with a sliver of your dignity.

These are new rules to protect us from terrorists. Don’t you feel safer now? Of course you do, comrade.

Sheesh, could our government get any more stupid and incompetent? Probably. Stay tuned.