I am entering the security at Chicago's O'Hare airport, and they find a small toothpaste that was in the bottom of my bag, not in a plastic bag (they use the word "zip lock", but I refuse to, on the basis that this is a brand name, and I want there to be parity in the plastic bag market)
"Uh, do you all have a plastic bag I could use?"
"No, we do not carry bags anymore."
"So, we can fight a war for oil....uh, I mean freedom...but cannot afford plastic bags?"
Silence.
Maybe I was upset that I was missing the large peace demonstration in Chicago, or maybe I was simply taking out my frustration over the impending police state in which we live.
Either way, it would make an interesting ballot question on election day.
"Would you rather
(1) have your taxes go to sending the young men of this country to go kill young men, women, and children of another country, in order to secure the ever-expanding empires of the oil tycoons. or
(2) have your taxes go to providing plastic bags at the scurity lines of the airport, in case you commit the ungodly sin of forgetting to put all liquids in a bag beforehand?
But don't hold your breathe looking for this one when you pull the curtain behind you and prepare to vote!
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