Today’s Metro Column

Though my Metro column had regularly appeared each Wednesday, it’ll be more time-fluctuant, if fluctuant is even a word, and if that alleged word translates to fluctuating and runs on different days each week. I’ll post here when the column runs, but here’s this week’s which again touches on travel-security nightmares. To wit:

… a very real sense we’d been violated by people who’d been given confusing marching orders from above. Like the pilot who, 35 minutes from landing, said go to the bathroom now or forever hold it in, and to “have fun.” And the stewardess who threatened we’d never land if even an iPod wasn’t turned off.