Hold off on that chip, says Thompson ... hat tip to STR.

... only about 60 living persons in the U.S. have agreed to be chipped. In addition to the voluntary recipients, the company's implants were injected into the deceased victims of hurricane Katrina, and there are plans to chip mentally disabled patients at a residential center in Chattanooga. VeriChip has also had talks with the Pentagon about chipping military personnel, though Procter said that "no formal agreements have been reached."

The VeriChip is a glass-encapsulated RFID device designed to be injected into human flesh for identification purposes and for use as a payment device.

So maybe a cranky and irreligious misfit infidel like me has read Revelations one too many times, as presumably many "military personnel" may also have and -- let me guess -- Tommy Thompson hasn't read it once? If that sort of thing isn't a "wrong way" sign for any so-called Christian administration, I don't know what is.

Strange days, indeed ... ;)