“Moreover, these rest areas are a public space, a shared non-commercial zone. People can stretch their legs, take a whiz and walk the dog without feeling like they need to buy junk food or smile guiltily at the underpaid counter clerk if they aren’t planning to spend any money.”

"Either of these transformations would be Pareto-optimizing and eliminate large Federal bureaucracies and political constituencies, which is probably why I've never heard anyone even suggest them."

"Wholesale surveillance is a whole new world."