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Archive for October, 2007

Patriot acting

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

A profile of an American falsely accused of terrorism who has been fighting the system and the Patriot Act the past three years — and winning.

Maybe our Constitution is retrievable after all.

Safe seating

Monday, October 1st, 2007

If you haven’t had a barking exchange with a ticket agent and can get to Minneapolis airport, it’s safe to use the men’s room again. Authorities are putting in full-length dividers. But now that even Larry Craig knows not to go there for anonymous sex, isn’t that like closing the barn door after the horses have escaped?

The unfriendly skies

Monday, October 1st, 2007

According to this story, you’d better bow and scrape if you don’t want to get screwed by an airline ticket agent and sent to Siberia while your luggage heads to a lost-and-found auction. Some of us thought just buying a ticket entitled you to decent service. Guess not.