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Remember when it was fun to fly?
As we inched through the airport security line, I seemed to be the only one grinding my teeth. Would anyone have defended me if I'd spoken up to the shirts?
By Garrison Keillor [2008-04-30]

  • I like Mr. Keillor's essay, but better than it is what...

    ...SusanGSMcGee wrote at the beginning of this thread. The passivity on display at airports is what is deeply disturbing. It reminds me of babushkas in Russia waiting silently for hours for toilet paper and even those who awaited trains for Auschwitz, believing that God would provide and protect them, or in our case, that Big Brother, D.C. will provide and protect us.

    -- bigguns
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    Wednesday, April 30, 2008 08:19 AM
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