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THE ‘10s: YR NEW FAVORITE DECADE OF FEAR
So, we’re 15 days into the new decade. Let’s see how that’s going.
1. DON’T TAPE ME, BRO!
Police in Boston are arresting people for recording them with camera-phones while they arrest other people who don’t have camera-phones.
2. AL QAEDA: THE PRIMARY SCHOOL YEARS
Mikey Hicks is on the TSA’s terrorist watch list. He is eight years old. He received his first airport pat-down when he was two. Because shit, Jim, you never can tell.
3. EVERYTHING IS A BOMB
In San Diego, an 11-year-old kid brings a science project to school: a motion sensor. A vice principal thinks it’s a bomb, shuts down the school, calls the cops and has the bomb squad x-ray it. The kid is not charged, but authorities recommend he get counseling – presumably because no kid in his right mind would make something that adults might think is a bomb.
Actually, that last one is understandable – given that we have been trained to assume everything might be a bomb. Because 9/11 changed everything.
As you can see.
Ride the fear train,
This is dF
1. DON’T TAPE ME, BRO!
Police in Boston are arresting people for recording them with camera-phones while they arrest other people who don’t have camera-phones.
2. AL QAEDA: THE PRIMARY SCHOOL YEARS
Mikey Hicks is on the TSA’s terrorist watch list. He is eight years old. He received his first airport pat-down when he was two. Because shit, Jim, you never can tell.
3. EVERYTHING IS A BOMB
In San Diego, an 11-year-old kid brings a science project to school: a motion sensor. A vice principal thinks it’s a bomb, shuts down the school, calls the cops and has the bomb squad x-ray it. The kid is not charged, but authorities recommend he get counseling – presumably because no kid in his right mind would make something that adults might think is a bomb.
Actually, that last one is understandable – given that we have been trained to assume everything might be a bomb. Because 9/11 changed everything.
As you can see.
Ride the fear train,
This is dF