What's Wrong With This Picture?

You seem agitated

 

"Comrade, we've been watching you. You seem agitated. Please come with us."

This photo appeared on the front page of the NYT on August 17.  The accompanying article was entitled "Faces, Too, Are Searched as U.S. Airports Try to Spot Terrorists", and can be seen online here. The photo conjures up all sorts of Soviet-era Orwellian imagery, and for me represents a chilling commentary on the "state of the state" here in our erstwhile democracy.

My caption for the photo appears in a letter to the editor in today's Times (p. A16). It's the third of three letters under the heading, "Putting On Your Airport Face".

What's wwwtp?

It could stand for "world wide web typepad".  Or, "world wide web toilet paper".  Or it could just be that it's easy to type in the browser's address bar.  Who knows.

This blog is intended to be a forum for asking and discussing questions regarding the state of life, the universe, and everything - by pointing out those obvious shortcomings that we seem to encounter all the time but about which nobody seems to be interested in doing anything.  We shall ask, "Why?"  and "Why not?" quite a bit I expect.

This blog is dedicated to George H. Everle, who - long ago in a galaxy far, far away - christened his three-year-old grandson "Mr. District Attorney".