\nEvery time I turn around there’s another “small price to pay” in the name of some drooler’s feel-good mis-attempt to solve a non-problem. Got no patience for it anymore.<\/p>\n
(The one that peeved me most recently was the rule against flying anonymously – a small price to pay to discourage those few suicidal terrorists too inept to arrange for false papers.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I wrote that last August 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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