Napolitano's Speech with DHS Cupcake: A Review  Maybe it’s just
a Washington thing, but no where can you gather more than a
hundred or so people in a significant venue for a major speech
on a topic of national importance that says… well… nothing. Such
was the scene at the National Press Club when 200 or so people
assembled to hear DHS Secretary Napolitano’s second annual
“State of Homeland Security Address.”  The entire program got
off to an interesting start when attendees arrived for the
luncheon remarks to discover a plate filled with cupcakes at the
center of each table. These weren’t just any cupcakes though.
These cupcakes bore the seal of the nine-year-old Department,
with white sprinkles surrounding the emblem.  Either someone at
the National Press Club has a wicked sense of humor to feature a
potentially life-threatening desert – just three weeks after TSA
confiscated a fearful red-velvet cupcake (baked into a jar) – or
the Department has gotten very creative in licensing its logo.
An even greater ir