It’s National Opt-Out Day
November 24th, 2010
Ordinarily I have enormous sympathy for anyone who has to fly during Thanksgiving week, but this year that sympathy is multiplied tenfold by virtue of National Opt-Out Day.
Of course, everyone is talking about the TSA and the “naked body scanners” and the “enhanced pat-downs” and all the rest of it. What I found notably odd yesterday among the countless oddities surrounding this issue lately was something I saw in Times Square.
The ABC News ticker was communicating, simply: “Avoid TSA groping this Thanksgiving.” No news story connection, no “This-and-such official says” attached to it. Simply: “Avoid TSA groping this Thanksgiving.”
Sitting in traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike will seem a little bit easier this year.