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We are writing to call your attention to serious concerns about the potential health risk of the recently adopted whole body backscatter X-ray airport security scanners. This is an urgent situation as these X-ray scanners are rapidly being implemented as a primary screening step for all air travel passengers. Our overriding concern is the extent…

Please rise and sing along!

A plain white van moving through traffic on a busy thoroughfare looks like a delivery vehicle, making a run to a local business. It could be any plain white van in any American city. But there are two men sitting in the back of the van operating X-ray machines. As their panel van moves in…

The [American Pilots Association] and UCSF scientists join a growing chorus of critics of backscatter devices. Last week, the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Department of Homeland Security’s TSA of unilaterally mandating the use of the machines as the primary security screening technique. By requiring government contractors to capture images…

Here’s a clip from an old Drive In that suggests we should eliminate Daylight Saving Time: Of course, Drive Ins are against Daylight Saving Time for one reason: it forces them to start their movies that much later in the summer. That said, I am for the abolition of Daylight Saving Time. In a modern…

Some photos I’ve taken this week with the help of Instagram.

This is perhaps my new favorite clip on YouTube.

This afternoon I flew from the Greater Rochester International Airport. This is one of the smallest airports I’ve flown out of in ages. However, it did have the Millimeter Wave (i.e. Naked) Body Scanners. Instead of walking through the scanner, I decided to opt out. I told the agent of my decision he said “male…

No, I didn’t drink the whole bottle.

There’s more where that came from, too.