{"id":4066,"date":"2010-11-16T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2010-11-16T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T19:30:20","slug":"tsa-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/11\/16\/tsa-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat-Down Put-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been so quiet lately.  But I have a great excuse: Mark and I went on the first annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewisblackcomedycruise.com\/\">Lewis Black Comedy Cruise<\/a>.  You can read all about our fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/11\/15\/lewis-black-comedy-cruise\/\">comedy cruise adventures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But now it&#8217;s time to get back to the work of political mockery.  Fortunately, I&#8217;ve returned from my travels just in time to make fun of the TSA&#8217;s delightful new privacy-invading screening procedures.  And I&#8217;m still trying to figure out which I prefer as my ticket to plane boarding:  a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/artcarden\/2010\/11\/14\/full-frontal-nudity-doesnt-make-us-safer-abolish-the-tsa\/\">&#8220;nude body scan or genital groping.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Pat-Down Put-Down<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a teen and can&#8217;t get to first base?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re a fondler, but fearful of Mace?<br \/>\nWell a pat-down career<br \/>\nCan be yours. (Front and rear.)<br \/>\nBe a TSA Feel-Her-Up Ace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been so quiet lately. But I have a great excuse: Mark and I went on the first annual Lewis Black Comedy Cruise. You can read all about our fun comedy cruise adventures here. But now it&#8217;s time to get back to the work of political mockery. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve returned from my travels just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[719,6,7,3,796,132,27,133],"tags":[1454,1451,1453,1452,803,1450,1455,1449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}