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Shadowlight Theater poster, 1963. Milton Glaser The TSA keeps on keeping on. Between May 4th and 10th, 2012, here’s what they found on the roughly 10 million air passengers* in US airports during that period. Firearms: 30 - 29 loaded; 1 unloaded 1 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints TSA’s homepage posted this link to the story of one [...] Chas. H. Yale's forever Devil's auction, U.S. Printing Co., c1899 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.) After a couple of weeks with a higher than average number of firearms being found by TSA agents, the period between April 27th and May 3rd, 2012, was quieter. Firearms: 23 - 22 loaded; 1 unloaded 1 artfully concealed prohibited item [...] Magazines weighted down with pistols, Drugstore, Gonzales Texas, March 1939. Russell Lee, American. (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC) I guess more of our air travelers must have been feeling threatened during the period between April 13th and 19th, 2012, because there were a lot more loaded guns found, according to [...] The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1445. Giovanni di Paolo, Italian (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art) First, to get the basics out of the way, let’s see what we got in return for the weekly $150,961,538 they cost us. According to the TSA, here’s what they found during the period between April [...] Circus poster, Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938. John Vachon, American. ( Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.) First, let’s take a look at what they say they found during the period between March 16th and 22nd, 2012: Firearms: 29: 21 loaded; 8 unloaded 3 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints As far as I can tell, none [...] The Suitcase (detail), 1990. Michel Potage, French (artsuggest.com) TSA wants you to know they’re still on the job and here’s what they found (fewer guns and more “artfully concealed” stuff) during the period between March 9th and 15th, 2012: Firearms: 16 loaded; 3 unloaded 5 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Over at the TSA Blog Week in Review, [...] Published as headpiece for: "In Quarantine" by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Collier's weekly, July 27, 1907. ( Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. ) Over at the TSA, another week, another edition of what they’re now calling Week in Review. Here’s what was discovered during the period between March 2nd and 8th, 2012: [...] X-Ray Photo, 1896. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. ) Another week’s finds straight from TSA’s homepage (for the period between February 24th and March 1st (otherwise known as St. David’s Day), 2012: Firearms: 21 loaded; 4 unloaded 3 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Another batch of photos of their awesome work on [...] Full body scanners can apparently be fooled by carrying light metallic objects on your side. TSA Out Of Our Pants demonstrates how to do it. This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their [...] The Federal Theater, Works Progress Administration presents "Blind Alley," 3 act drama by James Warwick at the Waterloo Theater, 1937. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.) Now that the folks at TSA are back on track with their Week at a Glance report, here’s what was found during the period between [...] |  | ||||
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