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Underwear Bomb

May 9th, 2012 | Leave a comment

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I drew a version of this one in 2006, anticipating the 2010 underwear bomb. With a slight caption revision, it’s as good today as it was then.  As Mark Twain once observed, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Welcome Aboard

November 26th, 2010 | 3 Comments

The protest against the new TSA body scans and pat downs fizzled, which shouldn’t come as a surprise. By now we’re so used to airlines security lines and to being routinely abused by  the airlines, we hardly notice any new affronts to our dignity when traveling. In a cave somewhere on the PAkistan-Afghanistan border, a [...]

Air Safety

January 6th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Yet another take on air safety. Short of strip- and cavity-searching every passenger and hand searching every piece of luggage, I have no idea how you make air travel perfectly safe from terrorists, and neither does anyone else, especially the people in charge of actually trying to make it safe. Their bureaucratic approach so far [...]