Instead of acknowledging their failure by adding new measures that consider all passengers as threats, wouldn’t it be better to ensure that no explosive gets aboard?
I often wonder how seemingly intelligent people hold certain opinions that slap the face of logic. The fact is that we are to an extent the product of the groups we live or work in. The danger for anyone in a group, work or otherwise, is that ideas formed in those groups get bounced back [...]
I just stumbled on an excellent article in the New York Times, “Time to Reboot America.” The author couldn’t have said it better: “Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I’ve argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones.” I didn’t have that impression landing in Philadephia sixteen years ago from [...]
George Orwell was right, just off about thirty years. The United Kingdom, and other European countries have started a dangerous trend of spying on their citizens, creating draconian gun laws, recording phone traffic, emails and text messages in databases, and installing a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras. Been to London? You were caught on camera about [...]
September 2007 I got pissed-off today after reading a post on the wall of my favorite coffee shop. It claims Burger King exploits farm workers. Probably from a student at the People’s Republic of New College.. There is no such thing as worker exploitation in this country! Nobody puts a gun to the head of [...]