Be Careful What You Listen To

Here's life today in Preznit Torquemada's America: A music website is reporting that a 24-year-old man was arrested at the Durham, NC, airport and pulled off a plane bound for London because the taxi driver who took him to the airport didn't care for his choice of music. Apparently, the songs London Calling by the Clash and Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin were enough to make the driver suspicious, so he alerted the local constabulary that a swarthy (I'm assuming -- the guy's name is Harraj Mann) individual was boarding a plane, and that they should make sure he wasn't going to take it over and fly it into some government building.

Can't find corroboration of this story (yet), but it sure smacks of the reality of our post-9/11 world, in which the Pinocchio administration desperately plays on the fears of Americans to keep itself in power and to keep from having to reveal any of its dirty little secrets to the great unwashed masses.

Use an MP3 player, go to jail!

***UPDATE*** Okay, I'm an idiot -- sort of -- this story is apparently real, but it happened at Durham airport in the UK, not North Carolina. So, uh, this is life in Tony Blair's England... Sheesh.