Boom Shocka Locka

NY Times:

Surely if electronic gadgets could bring down an airplane, you can be sure that the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, which has a consuming fear of 3.5 ounces of hand lotion and gel shoe inserts, wouldn’t allow passengers to board a plane with an iPad or Kindle, for fear that they would be used by terrorists.

I’d like to think that airlines are being more clever than we would have thought. They know that playing an iPad game won’t send down the plane, but for just 10 minutes, they want us to disconnect and marvel that we are casually flying through the sky in a metal tube to a destination hundreds or thousands of miles, but only hours, away.