{"id":644,"date":"2006-11-01T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/war-on-moisture\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T20:19:07","slug":"war-on-moisture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/war-on-moisture\/","title":{"rendered":"War On Moisture"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’re quite a few posts on security screening and its shortcomings over the past week or so, which prompted me to do a little round-up:
\nBruce Schneier<\/a> and Xeni at BoingBoing<\/a> have posts about the poor performance of security screeners at Newark airport. My relatives just went through that airport on their way back from here. The also had stories of a run-in with an overly zealous screener in Midland.<\/p>\n

Then there’s another BoingBoing article<\/a> about a mouthbreathing screener in New Zealand who wouldn’t allow a passenger to bring on his clearly marked insulin, causing the passenger to go into DKA and require hospitalization.<\/p>\n

These reminded me of a Scott Adams post about dangerous containers<\/a>. And if you haven’t already heard about it, check out his post about how he cured himself of Spasmodic Dysphonia<\/a>. You should read Scott’s blog because he’s a political<\/a> genius<\/a> and because this<\/a> last<\/a> run<\/a> of Dilbert<\/a> strips<\/a> was<\/a> hilarious<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And don’t forget your Kip Hawley Is An Idiot baggie<\/a> when you’re on your way through screening so you can test the War on Free Speech<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

P.S. I totally forgot the part where I make this all about me…because everyone knows that’s all that matters. The most important casualty in the War on Moisture is that I can no longer get relatives (mainly my sister) to smuggle bottles of Stone<\/a> Pale Ale, Ruination or other special flavors that I can’t get deep in the heart of Texas in carry-on luggage when they happen to be in more enlightened parts of the country. Damn you, Greg Koch! Distribute all of your highly addictive products in Austin! Stat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’re quite a few posts on security screening and its shortcomings over the past week or so, which prompted me to do a little round-up: Bruce Schneier and Xeni at BoingBoing have posts about the poor performance of security screeners at Newark airport. My relatives just went through that airport on their way back from […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-ao","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}