Maybe I’m just becoming more cynical of your typical news outlet, but I read an article on the NYTimes website entitled, Crackdown Costs Travelers Water, Lip Gloss, and Time. I noticed the author of the story was one “Kirk Johnson,” and was immediately suspect of the articles breathless indignation of women being forced to not bring their lip-gloss on the airplane. The whole article, to me, was nothing more than a child with adult language throwing a tantrum.
Then I noticed at the bottom….
Reporting for this article was contributed by Cindy Chang in Los Angeles, Brenda Goodman in Atlanta, Katie Kelley in Denver, Gretchen Ruethling in Chicago, Diana Jean Schemo and Paul Giblin in Phoenix and Katie Zezima in Boston.
No… really? You’d have thought that the world was coming to an end because some people were inconvenienced.
Basically, the whole article is one complaint after another and one big criticism of the TSA because people were inconvenienced during a day where a major plot to kill lots of people was foiled. It’s just a waste of time.
Blah, I’m getting so tired of all this. Thank God that Piper is back and we’ll soon enjoy the fruits of his labors during his sabbatical.
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