Ahem.... yawn....'shoe bomber' on Denver flight subdued by air marshall

[Ed Jewett]

Well, given that effluent flows downhill, I'd guess the mindset we sense out here at the end of the media tube is amplified intensely inside the agencies charged with security, the same twitchy trigger of mind that was evidenced elsewhere recently. Some calkl it jumping to conclusions, some call it premature cognitive committment (see Ellen Langer's books on mindfulness), etc. We have been told to be on the lookout for without precise descriptions and characterizations and so, indeed, Magda, we get stereotyping and profiling. Deep in my blog is a story about an Orthodox Jew taken off a flight in Montreal because he was incessantly rocking back and forth as he prayed. And yet movement and mind and spirit are inseparably linked.