Not content to ban lobster, nail polish, firecrackers, statues and sewing catalogs, a resurgent Taliban today declared high-quality package delivery services “un-Islamic.”

A member of the Taliban's “Mutaween” religious police
chases UPS driver Ghazal Hashimi (brown burka at right)
Kabul, 13 January 2010

Seriously, though, you know you’ve got a reputation problem when you get blamed for some dude’s banged up Hamilton Beach R2502 Big Mouth Juice Extractor:

Word.

A friend asked me to go an American Society for Quality (Software Division) meeting, so I checked out their web site.
With dawn-like inevitability, I ran into a little snag…