Sun
May 8 2016
09:04 am
Maybe she was on her way to a Trump rally
By: R. Neal

A man was removed from an American Airlines flight and questioned for being a suspected terrorist after a woman wearing flip-flops sitting next to him reported that he was acting suspicious and writing cryptic notes in a script she didn't recognize.

The man turned out to be an economics professor working on a math problem for a presentation he was giving at his destination.

Washington Post: Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight

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Factchecker's picture

Must we be doomed?

Submitted by Factchecker on Sun, 2016/05/08 - 9:23am.

The era of Idiocracy is truly upon us.

R. Neal's picture

#trump #idiocracy

Submitted by R. Neal on Mon, 2016/05/09 - 7:48pm.
(in reply to Factchecker)
bizgrrl's picture

In this true parable of 2016

Submitted by bizgrrl on Sun, 2016/05/08 - 9:59am.


In this true parable of 2016 I see another worrisome lesson, albeit one also possibly relevant to Trump’s appeal: That in America today, the only thing more terrifying than foreigners is…math.

Heh.

Elwood Aspermonte's picture

No, probably a redneck cracker hen from South Knoxville

Submitted by Elwood Aspermonte (not verified) on Mon, 2016/05/09 - 1:17pm.

first time in a long time she had gotten out of the sticks and out of the 37920, too cheap to fly Delta Air Lines, she shleeped onto a U.S. Air flight (now known as American Airlines, but it's still U.S. Air) way too far from home and the confines of Chapman Highway and John Sevier Highway to understand or appreciate what America really looks like now (it don't look like Halls or Carter), particularly in Pennsylvania and New York.

Couldn't have possibly been anybody attending a Trump Rally, Trump won the New York primary on April 19 with 60 percent of the vote, no political activity in New York until after the California primary next month.

bizgrrl's picture

Hey, why are you picking on

Submitted by bizgrrl on Mon, 2016/05/09 - 1:26pm.
(in reply to Elwood Aspermonte)

Hey, why are you picking on South Knoxville ladies? They wouldn't wear flip flops on a plane. Plus, the Italian living in Pennsylvania wouldn't have resisted talking to the Southern Belle from SoKno

Min's picture

Perhaps...

Submitted by Min on Mon, 2016/05/09 - 6:09pm.

He was a secret member of Al-Gebra. =:-o

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