Archive for air travel
The “Death to America” Flash Card Series
According to this story, Nicholas George, a student at Pomona College in California was questioned and detained at Philadelphia International Airport, allegedly because he was studying a pack of some 200 Arabic vocabulary flash cards. He’s suing.
Seems like another case of zealous (over)profiling, until you read this:
“George says he was carrying nothing dangerous — that [...]
Exact Change is Appreciated
This coming Thursday the California Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in the case challenging the validity of Prop 8, which purported to rescind the marriage equality that the court had granted in May of 2008. So I will offer a Blog in Three Acts, running Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
I have at least one [...]