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An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner.

An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner.

Posts Tagged «Security»

Apr 04 2008

Overblown

Posted by: Alan in Book Reviews, Books, Non-Fiction, Politics, Short Takes

In October of 2001 my later partner, Joel, and I took a long planned ‘once in a lifetime’ trip to Hawaii. It was somewhat surreal traveling in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. There were rifle-toting National Guardsmen all over every airport but apart from their conspicuous presence, airport security was still pretty low key and ‘customer service’ oriented (if the security rules that had been in place on 9/11 had actually been FOLLOWED, none of the hijackers would have been allowed to board). Passenger screening had Not yet been "Halliburtoned" into a passenger funded federal agency that has turned checking in for a flight to Phoenix into an experience only slightly less intrusive and de-humanizing than be booked into a typical county jail.