HOMELAND ABSURDITY With Tom Ridge exiting stage left from the troubled Homeland Security Department, another round of guessing who will fill the slot will continue. Even before Ridge made the announcement, it was thought that longtime Bush friend Joe Allbaugh was in line to take over the job. Allbaugh, who oversaw the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the early days of the Bush Administration, but who lately has been in the private sector, is known as a tough administrator, one who would clean up what is considered a growing mess at DHS. "It's just a huge bureaucracy that people can't...
