More On The Absolute Bullshit Security At Airports
More On The Absolute Bullshit Security At Airports Joe Sharkey writes at The New York Times about the pathetic "security" where there's nobody watching (where there's no "theater" like there is at the TSA); and that's behind the scenes at...
"Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck" In Joe Sharkey's New York Times Travel Column Today
It's always thrilling to appear in The New York Times (well, unless the story is that you embezzled money), but he did a particularly wonderful inclusion of me and quotes from my book...
TSA Turns Air Travel Into Civil Liberties-Free Nursery School
They do this with ridiculous "freeze" drills in airports -- even past the "security" checkpoint...
TSA Freeze Drills: They Aren't Actual Officers And You Don't Have To Freeze
Know your rights...
Joe Sharkey Went To Brazil And All He Got Was This Lousy Lawsuit
This variety of libel tourism preys on the writer/professional traveler...
Sharpen Your Elbows!
No, you'll no longer be getting on a flight, but getting on an airborne fight camp, where people with coffin-sized carry-ons push and shove and jockey to get on the flight first to get their vast bags in the overhead.
No, Driving Up My Tailpipe Won't Make Me Go Faster
No, Driving Up My Tailpipe Won't Make Me Go Faster New York Times business travel columnist Joe Sharkey writes about Mika Larson's answer to assholes on four wheels -- one I've considered myself: On her Web site, Roadrage.com, Ms. Larson...
Shooting Poisson In A Barrel
I stopped picking on LA Times travel writer/blogger Susan Spano, mostly because it's too easy, and thus, too boring. But, this is just unbelievable.
Are We Safer Or Just More Annoyed?
Are We Safer Or Just More Annoyed? The New York Times' Joe Sharkey on the No-Brains, uh, No-Fly list snafus, and how the suspected terrorists keep getting younger and younger. Like, just-out-of-diapers younger: YOU may be surprised at the number...
Wi-Fi-way Robbery
Wi-Fi-way Robbery You know all those $4.50 local calls you're no longer making when you stay at a hotel, thanks to your cellphone long distance plan? Well, the hotels are, perhaps, making up for them by gouging customers for Wi-Fi....
Going Places Without The Ben Dover
Going Places Without The Ben Dover For just $79.95, writes Joe Sharkey in The New York Times, you can have your hostility removed before boarding an airplane: NOT to put too fine a point on it, but I'd rather take...
Are You Well-Hung?
Are You Well-Hung? Of course, that's a matter that's between you and...airport security? Well, it will be very soon, it seems, according to Joe Sharkey's business travel column in The New York Times: I am looking at a copy of...
Lucy Riccardo Takes The Plane
Lucy Riccardo Takes The Plane The New York Times' Joe Sharkey includes yours truly in a most entertaining column, "Beware of F.B.I. Agents Bearing Small Nail Files," about fun and frolic in "The TSA Follies." The best story was this...
Amy Alkon, Stripper
Hugs And Juggs For all those out there who are up nights wondering if I'm a real redhead, I should soon be moonlighting as a stripper, in the airport nearest me. Lucy, the sock thief, picks up the slack after...
