Are We Having Fun Yet?

That just changed again (it had already changed once, as the original proposal was to have gone into effect on Dec 31 2005). See this. Basically, they intend to create yet another travel document for citizens of Canada, Mexico and the US, called PASS (People Access Security Service, a tortured reverse-engineered acronym if I've ever seen one). The intent is to make it inexpensive and more accessible than a passport. This is government we're talking about, so I give them a probability of success somewhere around 0.2.