As mentioned in the previous entry, I was on the road yesterday. As usual, lots of AM/FM channel surfing. After I got tired of the hype from the right, I found Air America and caught the end of Franken's show. But he was on good behavior and actually giving Murtha a ration of shit. Then I found Pacifica, which is about as commie as you can get -- although what I caught before it faded out was a history of habeas corpus and its abuses and I really couldn't find much to complain about. Then I listened to NPR for a while. Amongst it all -- and plenty of news stations in-between -- the prevailing thing was the holiday air travel: how you need to baggie your personal hygienic products, how you need to be to the airport at least three hours ahead of time, how you have to be patient, and on and on. And then there are the sound-bites from those interviewed. Never do you get a real cross-section of what people really think, but you get the better-safe-than-sorry crowd and those who are just grateful to feel safe. I guess those whom the Transportation Shadenfreude Administration (TSA)...