Ask the pilot is a feature in Salon.com that shows the other side of the equation when it comes to profiling on airplanes. Certainly it is overly simplistic to think that profiling young Arab males would solve the problem. However, it is an easy way to get a leg up on things. We need to profile people based on behavior, appearance, destination, point of origin etc. It's police work, not put your blinders on and randomly screen every nth passenger. This isn't rocket science and I'm not the first person to come up with this stuff. Nonetheless, read the article above it will disabuse you of some preconceptions.
That state of the DE blogosphere
I've been holding off on commenting on the imbroiglio over a posting at DelawareLiberal for Veteran's Day for several reasons. First and foremost is the situation at home (more on that later) but also because I wanted to get some distance from it to be sure I was seeing things clearly. I've been reading DV's stuff since before he joined Jason on his site and I've noticed a change in tone which seems to have accelerated of late. I enjoyed going to the old site because it was one the few places I could engage someone with different ideas than mine without things crashing headlong into Godwin's law within 3 posts. In short, DV acted in good faith and was rather deferential to his visitors which I greatly appreciated. Since pulling the old blog and posting on DelwareLiberal, I've noticed that ground has eroded rather quickly. I've never agreed with anything Jason posted but found him a book end to DelaThought's knee jerk partisan right wingery. Fi...
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