9/11s legacy of headupourassitis… still going strong

Today is the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Below is reprint of the post I made one year ago today. Despite (or maybe because of?) another election cycle, nothing’s changed. I marveled, as I stood in a monster security line at O’Hare recently, that anyone is under the illusion that the TSA makes us safer. Reality check: we now stack hundreds of people together in winding queues outside security gates in every major airport in the nation. Heck, would-be hijackers don’t even need to get onto a plane anymore… all they need to do is take a cab to the airport, and there we are, packed like sardines in endless lines with our little ziplock baggies and untied shoes.

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