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Pocket knives to be allowed on planes?

Posted on March 6, 2013 | Comments Off on Pocket knives to be allowed on planes?

So says the LA Times, a newspaper long notorious for inaccuracy and bias. They say TSA will allow blades under 2.6 inches. Figures. Couldn’t be an even two or two-and-a-half inches. Nah, got to make it hard to measure. Typical government operation.

Well one of my pocket knives (I usually carry one or the other for whatever I might need a tool for) has a two-inch blade, the other has 2.5. Right. I can see those hamburger-flippers measuring blades and confiscating the knives they say don’t make the, uh, cut.

More federal circus security with a new basis for argument and possible arrest. Jerks. I might risk losing the smaller, cheaper one. But definitely not the other, a gift from the NRA for renewing my membership. Best to just leave them at home. Even better not to fly at all.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: Delta pilots and Stewardi are opposed. They say it will slow down the security checks. It will that. Government fixes never are.

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No tag at recess

Posted on December 8, 2007 | Comments Off on No tag at recess

The Mouth of the Brazos and I go back to a time when kids carried pocket knives everywhere, even to school. Imagine that. Nowadays, as MOTB says, just drawing a picture of a knife can set teacher tongues wagging. But imagine my surprise when I learned that Mr. B.’s teacher has outlawed tag at recess. The problem, as she sees it, is the "contact" part, as in the touching, slapping, punching, whatever, to indicate who is "it." Mr. B., ever the rebel, suggested pointing. Just pointing, within a range of, say, twelve inches. One teacher liked it. But not his. So, no tag at recess. They call this progress. Sensitivity, and other malarkey.

UPDATE:  Teachers do have the ability to impose rules of their own, but in this case, the no tag policy is district wide. Not a single child in the Austin school district is allowed to play tag at recess. Pathetic. Worst of all–are you ready for this?–it’s increasingly becoming the case nationwide.

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