I'm not even looking for this stuff anymore, folks. It's just what I come across when I pull up CNN to find out the latest in new Pope news. (I note that he went from "controversial" to "arch-conservative" in about an hour, and is now back to "conservative" in the headline of the Reuters Story posted on Yahoo! News. Ah, but he's still "arch-conservative" in the text of the article - whew!)

Anyhow, I'm shocked, shocked to hear of waste and corruption at one of my favorite government agencies, TSA.

" A Transportation Security Administration official spent $500,000 on art, silk plants and other decorations for a new operations center and then went to work for the vendor after leaving the agency, according to a report from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general."

And there's more - basically bureaucrats living high off the hog while on the public dole. Fitness centers, towel laundry service, cable televisions at work stations, etc. Gov't credit card abuse and lack of accounting oversight, plus active attempts by high-ranking TSA officials to stymie investigations into the expenditures, are to blame for the costs.

A government agency that lacks accountability and spends with wild abandon - does it get any more predictable than this?