It’s the goal of every right minded person to be well traveled and cosmopolitan, but I’m under no such pressure. The internet is just fine, thank you. I can learn about other cultures and converse with their inhabitants from the privacy of my home. Also, it won’t cost me thousands of dollars and entail any scanners or the attention of verbally abused TSA attendants.
But, I don’t bash on them. For every drunk-with-power, fondling attendant, there are probably a dozen that have taken to drinking hard liquor every night. It must be hard to learn that you’re an important line of defense against would be terrorists and then be hated by virtually every passenger. I’ve read that some people are pointedly not bathing in order to make life miserable for them. That must really improve the trip…
We can all agree on one thing: The new security measures have given us something to talk about while carving up the turkey. Most recently, the TSA has decided not to molest our children in their quest to uncover ass-bombs. That’s awful nice.
Anyway, if you must travel this holiday season, please do so with my condolences. It’s not as though air travel was a hoot before the crackdowns, but it was a great deal more bearable. The following Onion video used to be just funny, but now I’m wondering if the U.S. government is using it as inspiration.
