taking a sleeping tablet once you're on the plane,

Unless, of course, the plane crashes and you're trying to manage a water evacuation while ... sedated.

(Don't worry about me. I'm the one who looks around once I'm seated and after glancing at all the other passengers, I ask myself, "Are these the people I really want to die with?" I don't fly any more. Now there's a surprise!! All the crap following 9/11 ... and the "security measures" instituted afterwards finally pushed me over the edge. It wasn't much of a trip actually.)

Sooo, the next time you stand in the X-ray tunnel at airport security with your hands raised over your head, ask yourself ... "Is this the posture of a free man?" Or woman. Or WTF-ever.

There is no place on this Earth I need to go bad enough to fly there!!

If I can't drive there ... forget it.