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Writer’s Blog: J.K. Rowling vs. Airport Security
Somebody in the TSA has got to get a grip.

J.K. Rowling tried to return home recently and had a run-in with airport security:

Airport security tried to stop her from taking the unfinished, handwritten manuscript of the last Harry Potter book on board the plane as carry-on luggage.

What the heck is going on here?! What was she going to do, threaten to read the pilots to death? Give everyone on the plane a nasty paper-cut until her demands were met?

Okay, I can see how that would be dangerous. After all, those cuts could get infected! Those would be dark days indeed…

What’s next? Are women going to be required to remove their underwire bras? Those things can be dangerous, right? What about belts? Heck, you could strangle someone with a shirt, couldn’t you? With the proper training, you could use your glasses as a knife. Maybe we should all just be shipped in suspended animation for safety.

I know the TSA rule-makers have an impossible job on their hands, but these restrictions are getting to be almost cartoonish in their paranoia.

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The latest info coming out about Heroes just bolsters my impression that this is going to be a good show.

In particular, the show will explore the themes of temptation and the duality between good and evil. “It’s one of the things that we’re really fascinated with, … this idea that all of these people have free will,” Kring said. “They are just like any of us. If you find yourself in a time in your life when you are desperate or destitute, and you suddenly discover that you can walk through walls, well, then you may walk through the wall of a bank and rob it and steal money. If you are inclined to do good, and you have the ability to hear people’s thoughts, then you will do good with that. And it really becomes about free will, which is also a part of the hero’s journey. What do they do when they are suddenly tempted by darker forces?”

That same article confirms that not all heroes will remain heroes, and that there will be a super-villain. I’m a little worried that the super-villain will be cheesy, but I hope that’s because I still have the stale cheese of Who Wants To Be A Superhero’s Dark Enforcer running through my head. **shudder**

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