Quick Question:  How much credit does Calvin Trillin get for this “Underwear Bomber” prediction?

The answer, I’m afraid to say, is not a whole awful lot.  It’s predictable enough.  Tell someone a few years ago that this would be used as a store-house for explosive devices, and I don’t see how any sane and sensible person could miss a beat.  Drugs are smuggled in that route, right?  )If you don’t know that, you’re even more naive on issues of Illegal narcotics than I am.)

Likewise, if someone were to tell you now that a few years hence, a particularly creepy TSA employee will be caught making private use, or releasing publically, Full Body Scan images, you shouldn’t miss a beat.

So we’ve now reached that point where Air Travel is undesirible and unwelcome.

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In other news.  Make sense of this what may.

An Ohio man who became loud and disruptive aboard a Wednesday night flight from Miami to Detroit — at one point telling those around him he “wanted to kill all the Jews” — was removed from the airplane before takeoff and arrested.

The man was identified as Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, who authorities sayposed no potential security threat.

Miami-Dade police say he caused enough of a “disturbance” that the pilot had to return to the jet-bridge. When Asad was taken off the plane to be interviewed by police, he threatened officers, made racial comments and charged an officer, authorities said. He was Tasered twice.[…]

According to the arrest affidavit, Asad said: “ `I’m not afraid of you cops. I’ve gotten in fights with cops in Ohio and broke their arms in three places. I’ve broken skulls too!’ ”

He then prayed and chanted, before telling a cop to “Go back to Africa, you white racist cop!”

… A tad incoherent.

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