Giving us the finger

(Disclaimer: This post is entirely unrelated to the last one. At least, I think it is.)

Rich Lowry says not to worry about finger print identification. This has been going on for some time, and you can't go a month without reading about iris scans and the like. Really, the next stage--this year? Next?--will be that this sort of thing will no longer be the topic of essays and news stories. Here's hoping Nat Hentoff lives forever, but I fear he won't.