Can They Show That on a Family Blog?

Austin Bay on giving birth to the new Department of Homeland Security:

Mating dinosaurs and merging government agencies have much in common. Given the bulk and mass engaged, in both cases the turf shakes.

Wait, it gets better:

The ritual noise generated can’t be ignored. Success is a relative thing, literally and figuratively. Dinosaurs beget dinosaurs. Merged government agencies beget another government agency. Dinosaurs were the whiz-kids of the Cretaceous, which ended 65 million years ago. Government agencies tend to turn whiz-kids into bureaucrats, ending audacity and creativity.

Oh, just read the whole thing already.