thanks thor - i was skeptical, but it didn't occur to me to go check it. Even as complete fiction, its still a pretty good story.
As someone who flies regularly, i occasionally freak myself a little. Not all the time.
When you see the gaping holes in this 'security' system they've supposedly got in place, it reminds you that we're not in any better shape than we were before 9/11.
It also reminds you that you can have every senior citizens' feet bottoms metal detector-ed and it won't stop even the least remotely motivated evildoers (love that word) from ensuring that the last thing that you see in this world is an oxygen mask dropping from the ceiling.
the first thing that went through my mind while watching over and over the image of those planes disintegrating into those buildings was 'Well, I guess this is what we get for being the world's asshole.' A global attitude only strengthened by the idiot in the whitehouse.
Now, lately, I find myself asking whether it is better to work to get one asswipe out of the oval office, or both groups of asswipes.
now i have to go fly - hoping, though somewhat confident in the odds, that this isn't my last meal:
