Our TSA….saving us from wheelchair grannies and their evil defibrillators.  No wonder American Airlines went bankrupt earlier this week. 
(msnbc.com)…An 84-year-old New York grandmother said Saturday she was injured and humiliated when she was strip searched at an airport after she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner.  Lenore Zimmerman said she was whisked away to a private room and made to take off her pants and other clothes after she asked to forgo the screening because she worried it would interfere with her defibrillator. She missed her flight and had to take one two-and-a-half hours later, she said.
“I walk with a walker — I really look like a terrorist,” she told The New York Daily News. “I’m tiny. I weigh 110 pounds, 107 without clothes, and I was strip-searched.  I was outraged,” said Zimmerman, a retired receptionist.   (more…)

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Summer’s here, and perhaps you’ve been contemplating taking a jaunt in the family automobile, or maybe even that long hoped for cruise or transatlantic flight.  Then reality sinks in, and you’re reminded of the sky-high gas prices, or that gauntlet of TSA  screeners eagerly groping you in hopes of finding a ‘loaded’ Depends.  Despair not!  We’re going to take you on a little trek right in front of your own computer. 
Every year Wikimedia Commons, the file repository serving Wikipedia and other projects, has over ten million files freely available for everyone.  Every year they hold a vote to select their picture of the year.  Below are the top ten photos chosen for 2010.  (more…)