Yes, Americans drove more in 2010 than in the previous couple of years. But I’m wondering if it is so much a sign of economic recovery, as the author of the linked WSJ article suggests, (Where ? Really?), or a trade-off to avoid being groped, having nude x-rays on somewhat public display, or having other increasingly invasive airport search procedures forced upon them.
Next up for the air travel public, and coming to you this summer from DHS, will be compulsory cheek swabs for DNA/personal biological data collection. Presumably many or most of us are criminals and potential criminals. We most certainly will be if we resist. It’s disgusting, but welcome to the national biological data bank.
If the government had dream-content monitors available, you betcha they’d insist on using those on us as well.
