If you don’t read The Atlantic, you should. Not only can you act like you’re smart, you might become smart. Or at least a lot smarter than you’ll ever become reading the typical drivel in a cop magazine (yes, I know, “staying alert can save your life”–so remain in “Code Yellow” and read something worthwhile).
Here’s a short piece on “truth” in politics. “The Truth Lies Here.”
Academics should read this, about how most of medical science is… what’s the word?… Wrong. (God save us if Dr. Ioannidis ever took on Sociology). (And extra credit because the story is good for the Greeks.)
And last but not least, read the latest about TSA and pat-downs in Jeffrey Goldberg’s hilarious (and disconcerting) story about airline security.
I asked him if the new guidelines included a cavity search. “No way. You think Congress would allow that?”
I answered, “If you’re a terrorist, you’re going to hide your weapons in your anus or your vagina.” He blushed when I said “vagina.”
“Yes, but starting tomorrow, we’re going to start searching your crotchal area” — this is the word he used, “crotchal” — and you’re not going to like it.”
“What am I not going to like?” I asked.
“We have to search up your thighs and between your legs until we meet resistance,” he explained.
“Resistance?” I asked.
“Your testicles,” he explained.
‘That’s funny,” I said, “because ‘The Resistance’ is the actual name I’ve given to my testicles.”
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The agent snapped on his blue gloves, and patiently explained exactly where he was going to touch me. I felt like a sophomore at Oberlin.
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He felt me up good, but not great. It was not in any way the best pat-down I’ve ever received.
The best pat-down my wife ever received was in the Vienna Airport. It was five years ago. We were newlyweds. The young woman feeling up my wife was young, stern, fit, and wore leather gloves. I got to watch. She was meticulous. And thorough. We both thought it was hot.
Thanks for the cop magazine reference at the start. Made me laugh. Most police magazines are entirely to militaristic for me. SWAT should be a small part of policing but in some of these magazines, which I will not name, you could be excused for thinking that all police calls should be resolved with a paramilitary response.
Dave H- IL
Dave, warning, you're going Code White!
Hell, I'd pay to get felt up by a young, stern, fit woman who wears leather gloves.
Heels too. High heels.
Perhaps a whip.
I could go on, but I won't.