Re: Airport insanity

I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that amount to basically: "You look like you've just left a terrorist training camp." For whatever reason, pictures of me always come out looking like some crazed religious fanatic. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to bomb anything. And I sure hope that I'm not going to be detained or denied entry because of how I *look*, alone. No, of course not. even if you had a turban, carried a koran and your briefcase made a suspicious ticking noise, that would be *profiling* and

Damian Gerow wrote: therefore bad. Now, if your name happened to sound like someone who doesn't look like you, but a FBI agent had once misheard in passing... that would get you detained.