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  Friday, 29 July 2005


This is Homeland Security


62 year old woman found guilty of assaulting a federal aviation security staff member. Mark Frauenfelder: Traveling Salesman says: "62 year old ex-school teacher and member of the community in a sleepy Wisconsin town, Phyllis Dintenfass was just found guilty of assaulting a federal aviation security staff member. She squeezed the breast of the security person after she claims the security person had done the same to her.

"She claims that she had made repeated verbal efforts to tell the security person that she didn't want to be felt up. When the security person said that she wasn't feeling Phyllis up, Phyllis responded, "My husband has been feeling me up for 40 years, I know what its like to be felt up".

"But...maybe the security person was right. Lets consider the other possibilities:

"1.) Phyllis was horny. she likes breasts. We all do. She saw the opportunity and she went for it.

"2.) Phyllis is a terrorist. This really seems to be the most likely scenario. The homeland is now secure thanks to the fine judgement of our people in airport security.

"I'm sure the federal prison inmates are quite worried about the threat Phyllis will pose to their safety."

[F]ederal policy required that Phyllis Dintenfass undergo a body search. As a result, she now faces imprisonment and financial ruin because of her understandable reaction. This does nothing to protect the public from terrorism, but a great deal to reinforce the idea of illimitable federal power âo[base "] which is, apparently, the entire point of the "war on terrorism."

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Excellent books for free


Michael Palin's travel books online for free. Cory Doctorow: Former Python Michael Palin has made a name for himself lately as a brilliant travel-writer and the host of a series of excellent travel documentaries. He has put the full text of all of his amazing travel-books online for free. They're spread out across multiple html pages, unfortunately, so they're not suited to downloading for reading on your phone on the Tube in the morning, but man is this ever a step in the right direction.
READ THE ENTIRE BOOKS FROM EACH SERIES HERE:

Around the World in 80 Days
Pole to Pole
Full Circle
Hemingway Adventure
Sahara with Michael Palin
Himalaya

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(Thanks, Chris!) [Boing Boing]
12:29:19 AM    

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