It’s also why we drink booze, woo a flooze, and take poos in our shoes — because hey buddy, you snooze, you lose.

But indeed, why doesn’t the New York Times quit it with all that high-flown cloak-and-dagger ‘warrantless spying’ stuff, and simply haul off and print a New York City subway map, so that al-Qaeda can know where all the secret and never-advertised subway routes are?