Now They’re Just MESSING With My Co-Blogger
“Among other things, during the final hour of flight customers must remain seated, will not be allowed to access carry-on baggage, or have personal belongings or other items on their laps,” said a statement posted on Air Canada’s Web site, citing the new TSA rules.
While the new regulations were supposed to be in effect just for U.S.-bound international flights, some passengers on domestic flights said they also had to abide by the restrictions.
So writes the NY Daily News, about the latest in the war on terror – and bladders. Perhaps the problem is that so few people live in farm country any more. What were once living figures of speech become dead metaphor. So you get solecisms like “tough road to hoe” (well, I suppose it would be!) or, in this case, nobody recalls the old saw about “locking the barn door after the horse was stolen.”
The sheer superstition involved would be grimly amusing if one didn’t have to live here. One would-be terrorist did X on a flight. Therefore let us forbid X in the future! It is classic magical thinking. It’s of a piece with being unable to muster a plurality of people who accept evolution. How long before we are back to bloodletting as standard medicine?
UPDATE: Scooped, of course. I should know better than to take on the Ken Jennings of airline “security.”
