I've Got You.....

Under my skin.

The Chicago Tribune has a story about yet another slow move toward general acceptance of sub-cutaneous ID chips.

The article concerns an Ohio security firm's boss and two workers who have had radio transmitting chips implanted under their skin. How nice.

The article further details how this is nothing new, and that the US is behind the rest of the world in using this technolgy.

Hey, I don't want to be "behind" the rest of the world, I want us to be the ones who never use this technology. Dead last. Paranoid? You bet.

And yet...the erosion continues.

Don't know if you've been paying attention to the news of the inevitable introduction of biometric ID cards in the United Kingdom.

Of course, we already have an ID card here in the U.S., it's called the Social Security card. And try getting a new one if your identity gets stolen.

This whole ID card, chip-under-the-skin, personal identity card stuff is creepy. And it's a lot like global warming. It's happening so slowly that you don't even realize it until the island you've been living on is suddenly under a foot of water.

So where's the funny here?

There isn't.

OK...a little nervous laughter. But that's a whole different kind of funny.