26 December 2009

So glad I am not flying anywhere... right now

Joe Sharkey, who writes in the business section of the New York Times (he has a regular column on Tuesdays), also has a blog, High Anxiety. Read his thoughts on the latest TSA reaction to the bungled attempt on the Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. It is worth pondering. Here is a snippet.

T.S.A. has been drifting along without a director for a year because a right-wing Republican from South Carolina has surveyed the situation and identified the real terrorist threat to America:

Union bosses.

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I am so glad I am not travelling anywhere via airplane until February... maybe I will take the train from here to Nebraska... nah, that will mean getting stuck in a snowstorm somewhere.

2 comments:

Fran said...

I am a little concerned that if I fly I will have to take off my pants now.

I am only half kidding and I recall Garrison Keilor making a joke some time back saying that it was a good thing that the shoe bomber was not the underwear bomber.

Glad that I can drive to VT... see you in one week!

it's margaret said...

well.... hmmmmm..... dang.

My mother always said you could judge a person by their underwear....