Could you imagine being pulled off of a plane, and asked to empty your CHECKED baggage on the tarmac? What if the "suspicious" item that was vibrating in your bag was an adult "sex toy"?

Yes, it happened to Renee Koutsouradis while waiting on their flight from Dallas back in February.

She said she was met by a Delta security agent who told her something was vibrating in one of her bags. She said she explained it was an adult toy that she and her husband had just bought on a trip to Las Vegas.

She said the agent took her to the bag on the tarmac and made her remove the toy and hold it up, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday. Some passengers on the plane saw everything, and three male Delta employees "began laughing hysterically" and made "obnoxious and sexually harassing comments."

Doesn't Everyone Love This Attitude.

In case you missed my post the other day, today is System Administrator Day!

So, to all of you SysAdmins I have worked for or with in the past, HAPPY DAY!

Oh yeah, and Happy SysAdmin Day to ME!

1. How long have you had a weblog? Since July 10, 1997. Of course, everything from January 1998 through December of 2001 was lost in a horrific hard drive crash. Okay, okay, I might be able to find some more of the old posts, but honestly, I have not looked for them.

2. What was your first post about? It was a welcome to everyone. (All three people that usually read it).

3. How many changes (name, location, etc.) of your weblog have there been, if more than one? Lets, see there was the commentary page, then the site o' schtuff, so two names, and two locations, woohoo.com and now slobokan.com

4. What CMS (content management system) do you use? Do you like it or do you want to try something else? I currently use Movable Type and would not use anything else, at this point.

5. Do you read people who have both a journal and a weblog? Or do you prefer to read people who have all of their writing in one central place? One central place is nice, but it does not matter to me.

Leave it to Helen Thomas to bring this to our attention. I love Helen.

President Bush won worldwide acclaim when he spotlighted the ruthless treatment of women by the Taliban regime. His bold stance on the issue contributed heavily to the international backing he received when he decided to attack terrorists in Afghanistan and elsewhere. But now he risks losing much of that support by withdrawing his earlier approval of an international women's rights treaty.

This pact was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979, and was signed by then President, Jimmy Carter. It has been sitting in wait, in the Senate, ever since.

The pact, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, is expected to be discussed Wednesday by the committee, and Helms is expected to block it.

Again? Isn't it time we stood up and declared that discrimination against women in education, employment, politics, finances, health care, and such is totally wrong?

Standing with the United States in failing to ratify the convention are nations known for their oppressive treatment of women, such as Afghanistan under the Taliban, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

I would not exactly be proud of the company we are keeping.

I think this story will eventually be considered more hype than reality, but in today's world you never know.

A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political effort to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their bottom line.

I have yet to see any REAL evidence that music downloads are in fact a "dire threat" to any of these companies bottom lines.

"It's a good bill," Gene Smith, a spokeswoman for Berman, said on Monday. "It's always hard to defend theft and piracy–this bill just puts into the hands of the copyright owners technologies that are already being used by the pirates."

Sounds like vigilante justice to me.