Christmas Eve is a very exciting travel day because it's one of the busiest, most insane times to attempt to get on a plane. Plus, the weather is guaranteed to be pretty horrible because it's winter. Also, there's horrific stress as millions of people try to get across the country at the
There's a sad futility in all this. Obama gets pounded because the "underwear bomber" (weapon of ass destruction) got on a plane in London. So we get presented every conceivable way someone could get an explosive on the plane. As if a determined suicide attack could be thwarted.
And I don't feel safer.
Tired, drunk, inexperienced pilots crash planes too. Lack of health insurance kills people. Carcinogens in the water kill people. Global warming will probably kill millions, if not billions. Regulations on those killers are called "job killers" and die.
If global warming was linked somehow to terrorists -- "Is al Queda is planning to use hotter summers to infiltrate swimming pools?", you decide -- the Repubicans would ban CO2 emissions by noon tomorrow.
Word. If they'd just knock you out for the prep it would be a nice nap after which a stranger brings you graham crackers. As it is, no one over 50 ever drinks Gatoraid out of choice.
I could have had a colonoscopy AND woken up in New England for one low price...
I'm awaiting the day when they ask heavier passengers to lift up the paniculus, please.
There's a sad futility in all this. Obama gets pounded because the "underwear bomber" (weapon of ass destruction) got on a plane in London. So we get presented every conceivable way someone could get an explosive on the plane. As if a determined suicide attack could be thwarted.
And I don't feel safer.
Tired, drunk, inexperienced pilots crash planes too. Lack of health insurance kills people. Carcinogens in the water kill people. Global warming will probably kill millions, if not billions. Regulations on those killers are called "job killers" and die.
If global warming was linked somehow to terrorists -- "Is al Queda is planning to use hotter summers to infiltrate swimming pools?", you decide -- the Repubicans would ban CO2 emissions by noon tomorrow.
Word. If they'd just knock you out for the prep it would be a nice nap after which a stranger brings you graham crackers. As it is, no one over 50 ever drinks Gatoraid out of choice.