Sign 1: at the Minneapolis airport, a separate, expedited security line for first-class passengers. Call me egalitarian, but if I’m going to queue up to take off my shoes, and do my part to prevent a generation of Islamic MacGuyvers from discovering the heretofore unknown explosive properties of coffee, I want everyone else to be miserable as well. Shared sacrifice, and all that.

Fortunately, the common sense of ordinary Minnesotans defeated the deferential instincts of our government, and one of the TSA guards, seeing the quickly increasing number of people waiting to have their toothpaste confiscated, shunted the ordinary folks line into the front of the first-class queue, making the rich guys stand in line just like the rest of us.

Sign 2: On the front page of the business section of today’s Wisconsin State Journal is an economic snapshot heralding “high-wage jobs with numerous openings” in Wisconsin. Great news, until you realize that what passes for a high-wage job these days is a position as an executive secretary or administrative assistant, with a distinctly non-high median salary of $34,558. It’s a good thing the Republicans know how to run an economy.

Sign 3: The Cardinals win the pennant! The Cardinals win the pennant!

Posted by Ben Brothers at 9:20 pm, 22 October 2006 and filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.