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Ziplock Security

Published on 2 Jan 2007 at 6:27 pm. Comments Off.
Filed under Politics, Airlines, Etcetera, etcetera.

Thanks to Anna Quindlen for her column in Newsweek about the current state of airport security. I travel frequently and the experience is like a fraternity hazing. One word of complaint and you can wind up holding your arms up, feet apart, until you miss your flight. What we have is kabuki theater, not security. Only […]

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Humorous Intel

Published on 1 Dec 2006 at 7:07 am. Comments Off.
Filed under Politics, Airlines, Credit Cards.

Buff is back. The truth is that during most of 2006, I was imprisoned in Guantanamo for attempting to bring hummus through a TSA screening checkpoint. My possession of a Middle-Eastern food product made me an obvious terrorism suspect. I’m free, I assume as the result of the mid-term elections. The Rs figure it’s only a […]

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Networked Up

Published on 19 Dec 2005 at 1:55 pm. Comments Off.
Filed under Good Manners, Airlines.

I came home yesterday from a week in Mexico, my composure and harmony destroyed with such efficiency by the return trip that I’m puzzled why America Worst is going under. Really. It started on the trip out. My bag was 4 pounds over the limit of 50, and the jerk at the counter made me take things […]

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