News and notes from around the interweb:
- McDonald’s is devaluing its rewards program
- Ralph Nader challenged airline overbooking at the Supreme Court (and lost). He supported airline deregulation in the 1970s, arguing (correctly) that the Civil Aeronautics Board blocked competition and acted to protect airline profits, not consumers. Fifteen years ago he opposed TSA full body scanners and invasive patdowns. He got much wrong in his career, but he was also right about many things. Now he’s taking on the security state’s War On Hummus:
Today, the notoriously picky TSA at Bradley Airport in Connecticut confiscated a container of fresh hummus. "Hummus?! Why?" asked the traveler. "Hummus is not a mysterious liquid. It’s a nutritious popular vegetable!"
"Doesn’t matter," was the rejoinder. "Either leave the line…
— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) April 10, 2026
- She even makes poor choices about what airline to fly on this route. Delta’s 767 premium product is genuinely awful.
NEW: @KamalaHarris and @DouglasEmhoff spotted on a flight from LA to NYC yesterday.
📸: Iris Osman pic.twitter.com/a8RnTHSVsr
— harris4potus (@kdh4potus) April 10, 2026
- Onboard Kosher for Passover meals are usually pretty good, actually. They’re terrible at almost all other times. But definitely worth ordering at Passover!
way too smelly for an airplane
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Pure Anarchy on this flight 🤮
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u/zero-degrees28 in
americanairlines - The American Airlines caviar. It’s not Singapore or Etihad but it’s ‘nice for American’?
Caviar in domestic first
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I don’t agree with Ralph Nadar about a lot of things but he is correct in that the war on liquids and things that have a bit of liquid in them is absurd. The implementation is brain dead. When I carry cheddar cheese it always gets a lot of inspection. Surprisingly, things that are verboten, such as peanut butter and jam, are allowed in cabin luggage if they are spread on bread. Maybe Ralph could have popped out some sliced bread or pita bread and smeared the hummus to make it acceptable.
On my trip ten days ago, from ICN to LAX, the guy next to me in upstairs coach on an A380 popped out his bare feet. It did not bother me. No strong revulsion. I was surprised since I thought I would have strong revulsion due to that being described as the normal response in multiple articles on VFTW.
Wait. McDonald’s has a reward program?
Who knew!
That closeup of the toes was a gut punch, Gary.
Still haven’t forgiven Nader for 2000… oh, wait, that was 5-4 Supreme Court, right @Mike Hunt?
@jack the ladd — Ready for another hummus-Hamas comedy routine? “Why’s everyone so outraged about hummus? It’s delicious!”
Good for him. I agree with 1990 about how he should have stayed out of the election, but also with Nader about the horror of scanners. They came in after Obama had a flight with the president of the company that made them (campaign contributions, anyone?). Regarding liquids, some on this site have disagreed with me when I point out that a group of people can easily exceed the 100 ml limit by pooling their resources. The argument is that folks aren’t that organized. Well, they are. And saying that frozen liquids are okay because they can’t be used seems to ignore a physical process called “melting”. Anyway, is a hard apple okay? Probably, so how about a soft spoiled one? An orange? My wife’s sealed little container yogurt didn’t make it, nor did the pasta sauce-covered dinner of an airline dispatcher whom I know. All this would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad.
@drrichard — You kept it 100. All sides, sadly, are susceptible to the ‘donor’ class. Well said. All of it. Thank you.
I’m not a fan of nadir (pun intended). Plus, who TF flys today and wouldn’t know hummus is a no go. Plus, he then b! tches that TSA wouldn’t allow an exception. Rules are rules.
@ this, you freeze it and you’re good to to. Small container will be ready to eat for a smear by the pre-departure beverage. Did I not explain this to you yesterday?
@Maryland — Got a go-to PDB? G&T? Jack n’ Coke? Bubbly? Diet Coke? Beer? Water…
@1990 still water room temperature. I’ve been told I am a cheap date. However at home without the kids , the good wine will flow ; · )
@Maryland — Excellent choices! I mix it up, some combination of the above.
(That good wine sounds like a better night than JD is having… Orban out, and he failed in Pakistan… probably could use a stiff PDB. Several.)
@1990
Will he fire jd? Don’t know if that would have been previously possible. The old man is likely having his coke and smoked milk.
Interesting cheap shots at Harris. I think it’s nice to see her and her husband being pretty much normal people and agreeing to selfies. They look happy and relaxed.
@1990 – If Nader had dropped out in 2000 we would have a much saner country today, albeit perhaps with stupid restrictions on music labels as a gift from Tipper. Come to think of it that’s some pretty mild damage by a first lady compared to what we’re getting this year.
Forget about the feet…that caviar plating is a crime against humanity. Encasing the caviar in a hollowed out Zucchini/Cucumber? Clearly the person who did that has never eaten caviar in their entire life. The onion slices size alone calls for the death penalty but 2 blinis and that’s it? Should be a minimum of four with that much caviar. Deviled eggs instead of separated egg whites and egg yolks? Unconscionable. At least they didn’t add Paprika to the Deviled Eggs…
@ 1990 — Ralph Nader’s gift to the world was nothing compared to Jill Stein’s. Like, Can we please have GW back, now? Pretty, please? Oh wait, no third terms.
Ralph Nader losing his Hummus at airport security reminds me of the fact that Aussie airports also treat Vegemite as a similar ‘security risk’. I lost a medium-sized jar at SYD last year. Had to take issue with the security officer. “This definitely isn’t a liquid or alcohol and it’s not a gel. It’s … it’s… well, it’s Vegemite!”.
@Christian – the cheap shot was at Delta more so than Harris 😛 [Although it’s Delta that’s being cheap, still flying those seats]
@Christian, @Gene — Mhm. Yup. 100%. (And JD should see how Mike Pence was treated. Never trust or enable malignant narcissists.)
At least Hungary shows us that the people can still recover from madness. It just requires a lot of work and diligence for generations. Can’t give up.
WTF? I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t be in a pointless war with Iran and skyrocketing inflation on groceries and fuel prices if Harris had won.
You and Ben need to lay off the asshole juice.
Nader has only done one good thing for this country. He’s a spoiler sucking democrat votes. Other than that he’s just a whinner every time a business has a good idea.
Maybe someone should take the liquid silliness to court. (Remember during the pandemic when the mask mandate got zapped by a judge in Florida?)