Thursday, July 12, 2007

Doctors, Dust Off Your Bicycles

Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion* wrote a piece for the Star-Telegram outlining for American doctors the new rules they can expect to be implemented by DHS:
Nonetheless, the fiasco in London is bound to bring new directives from the Department of Homeland Security forbidding doctors and nurses from operating motor vehicles. It only makes sense. Where there is smoke, there is fire. The war on terror must be pursued wherever it leads, and right now it points towards people with stethoscopes.

It is the DHS that requires us to remove our shoes at the airport and put our toothpaste in a little plastic bag, all in homage to previous unsuccessful terrorists, and so a new rule from Secretary Shirtsoff seems inevitable. What evil lurks in the hearts of men, the secretary knows.

Doctors have been shown to constitute a security threat; therefore they must not be allowed to drive cars or have backpacks or briefcases, which can conceal bombs. They should carry their possessions in clear plastic bags, and they should go barefoot at all times.

Read the whole thing. His sense of humor is a thing of beauty.

*I just recently saw the movie of the same title, which is loosely based on the radio show. I really enjoyed it.

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