I was having dinner with a friend tonight, when a great new ad campaign for Amtrak occurred to me.
Tag Archives: airport security
Amtrak owes me
Posted in Mark's Life, Marketing, Observations, Other, Rail Also tagged Amtrak, John Tyner, junk, junk touching, Opt Out Day, pat down, porno scans, security screening, security theater, TSA, underwear bomber 19 Comments
Terrorist plot foiled over Detroit on Christmas day
I woke up this morning to find my family watching FOX News. Apparently, a Nigerian man had attempted to ignite an incendiary device strapped to his leg on a Detroit-bound flight yesterday, while we were celebrating Christmas. Fortunately, it seems that this fellow, who was intent on killing hundreds of people, proved to be about […]
Posted in Other, Religious Extremism Also tagged 23, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, al Qaeda, Amsterdam, Andrew Sullivan, chemicals, Christmas, First Bank of Nigeria, hare-brained plots, heroics, incendiary devices, Juan Cole, leg bomber, legs, nefarious uses of the human leg, Nigeria, Richelle Keepman, shoe bomber, suicide bomber, terrorism, Transportation Security Administration, University College London 43 Comments
HORmobiles, shoe bombs and cell phones
This morning, I looked out the window and saw a little, blue hatchback wedged perfectly into the mouth of our crumbling cement driveway. The parking job wasn’t the work of an ordinary drunk either. And, this wasn’t an, “Aw, fuck it, they can still get around me” job, where you have to go a foot […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Other Also tagged "I will spend the rest of my life fucking with your shit. I will fuck your shit up.", "Who did you fuck last night HOR", 9/11, al Queda, car door, cell phone, cell phones, Crouching Tiger, Del Rio, Dukes of Hazard, ex-boyfriend, getting parked in, Hidden Dragon, high-tech ass, HOR, HORmobile, humorous misspellings, keyed, luddite, MIT Technology Review, OCD, police, Richard Reid, shoe bomber, slow-witted in-bred Amish bouncer, The Entertainer, using my fence against me, vandalism, whore 1 Comment