{"id":173,"date":"2004-08-11T01:59:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T06:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=173"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:17","slug":"cash_rules_ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/cash_rules_ever\/","title":{"rendered":"cash rules everything around me, and i&#8217;m fine with that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>who among us suspect-looking brown kids hasn&#8217;t been yanked aside for a full-cavity seach at the airport?  no?  not you??  but <em>i<\/em> always get&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>hmmm.<\/p>\n\n<p>anyway, after annie jacobsen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/womenswallstreet.com\/WWS\/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&#038;articleid=711\">bullshit article<\/a> in Women&#8217;s Wall Street, airline security has been on a lot of people&#8217;s minds (and some of them weren&#8217;t even bloggers).<\/p>\n\n<p>how DO you balance a genuine need for vigilance with respect for people&#8217;s dignity?  how else do we solve ANY problem in this country?  why, throw money at it!<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2104705\/\">this article<\/a> from Steven E. Landsburg for Slate provides the details:<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Being detained and questioned is a burden; it&#8217;s inconvenient and it&#8217;s demeaning. But there&#8217;s no reason that burden has to be borne entirely by the detainees. To spread the burden, all the airlines have to do is give each detainee a $100 bill for his trouble. If Northwest had had a policy like that on Annie Jacobsen&#8217;s flight, it would have paid out $1,400 to the 14 Syrians. Assuming there were another 200 passengers on that board, they could have covered that cost with a $7 hike in ticket prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>who among us suspect-looking brown kids hasn&#8217;t been yanked aside for a full-cavity seach at the airport? no? not you?? but i always get&#8230; hmmm. anyway, after annie jacobsen&#8217;s bullshit article in Women&#8217;s Wall Street, airline security has been on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/cash_rules_ever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}