s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

Well, the last couple of days have been lovely, enjoying the warm weather and the gorgeous Longwood Gardens, etc. Now we’re packing up for the Philly-to-Boston leg of the trip…

Oh, wait. Gee, it looks like the lovely folks at the Transport Safety Authority in Atlanta have decided that they must protect the good folks flying the friendly skies from several gifts we bought for friends here, and also from some possibly explosive used PS2 games.

So instead of toodling through Chinatown this morning, we are figuring out how to file a police report in another state, and which forms we need to download from the TSA website to report that the PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE KEEPING US SAFE HAH HAH WHAT A JOKE ARE ACTUALLY A BUNCH OF F%@&ING THIEVES.

I know we shouldn’t be surprised, but that doesn’t make me feel any less disgusted and outraged. If we’d been flying to, say, NIGERIA, then, yeah, I’d have been damned careful to keep anything that might look interesting in the carry-ons. But, hey, the US is doing its level best to become a filthy-corrupt dictator-run police state anyway.