Last week, I flew out to San Jose for three days of (seemingly interminable) internal meetings. When I arrived at the airport Thursday night to return home, it was a relief to see short security lines. As always, I picked the shortest one and started pulling my stuff out of my bag. It wasn’t until…
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New TSA drama: the extra touchy feely pat down
By now, there is probably no way you haven’t heard the furor surrounding TSA right now. It is all over the national and local news, the blogs and message boards, and anywhere else travel is discussed. There are a ton of hilarious Youtube videos out there (my favorite: If you touch my junk I’ll have…
We hate them but at least they are not super dangerous
While visiting my Memaw last week in South Texas, I got a chance to peruse her UC Berkeley Wellness Letter. On the front page they have a list of Wellness Facts, including a very informative little paragraph about the full body scanners, aka nudie-scopes, that are popping up all over the country. According the American…
Full Body Scanners vs. Privacy
There have been a lot of articles this week, everywhere from NPR to MSNBC to Huffington Post, about the new full-body scanners that may make an appearance in airports around the US. Some say the high tech scanners could have prevented the would-be terrorist from getting onto the plane on Christmas Day. The main reason…