The further adventures of an earthbound alien

Yesterday's farewell lunch:But for today:
Still in the airport! As it turns out there’s a four-hour layover in Detroit. No worries, as much as I’d like to be home, just being back in frightened old America will have to do for now. The customs lady was snotty to me. I won’t go into detail but I think there’s some homeland security incentive to snap at every third person. It’s probably another one of those, “find the terrorist” technique. They give you a dirty look that says, “I hate this frickin job” and if your reply is anything less than, “drop the ‘tude bitch, I hate flying and your job” you get a pass.
There also seem to be a lot more TV’s here at DTW than any of the airports that I’ve visited over the past year. (10 to be exact) And lo and behold the televisions all seem to be tuned to Fox news. Or as I like to call it, “News for retards.” You know what happens if you spin too much? You screw yourself into the ground. I look at Fox news the same way I look at the Home Shopping Channel. They are very good at selling crap that I wouldn’t buy in a million years.

One segment showed a guy, on location at an airport, holding a bottle of water, in case the viewer didn’t know what a bottle of water looked like. “This,” he said. “This is the type of item that you will no longer be allowed to take on an airplane.” Yes, it seems those carefree days of carrying water bottled down the gangway are over. Oh, how I’ll miss them. I remember the good old days when I would carry water on to the plane. One time I carried a whole case of Perrier onto a Cessna. Memories.

For now, view the exotic pictures of the east.
Here's what a student of Sardonics sees:And here it is without the filter:

...My little Lotus blossum.

A full photo tour by Joe is available to view at: http://web.mac.com/josephwalker1/iWeb/Shanghi/Shanghai%20Day%201.html