Traveler’s Choice: Groped Or Ogled?

The new backscatter security scanner is now in operation at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. It can see through your clothes! But don’t worry about that. You can refuse to provide X-ray porn for the TSA and opt to be groped, I mean patted down, instead. The TSA is not saying how it chooses passengers for "optional" secondary screening by the new scanner. Let’s hope it’s not by cup size.

Pass The Passports, Please

All right. You need a passport to go to Canada or Mexico. If you fly. Or if you go after next January – maybe. But not if you’re under 15 years old. Unless you fly. Got it?

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