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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Thursday, July 10, 2008 08:16 PM

    Yes, When Will the Lunacy Stop? -- (by which I mean you complaining about the TSA)

    Here are some other original ideas for you to write about:

    -Soccer will never catch on in America as a spectator sport

    -American students lag the rest of the world in science

    -CEOs and ball players make too much money, teachers too little

    -Dependence on foreign oil is bad

    -Michael Jackson is weird

    You're dangerously close to becoming Glenn Greenwald whining about FISA. Sure, he's right, but that doesn't make me want to read his 167th 15,000-word polemic on the subject. But he's supposed to be a boring writer. You have no excuse.

    Please get back to your exquisite writing about flying, preferably sprinkled with many references to Husker Du.

    And fer chrissakes, what DID cause the smoke on the Boston-PEI run?

    —Dave the Engineer Read Dave the Engineer's other letters

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