Lovely Profile

'...two explosive devices were discovered inside printer cartridges at the UK’s East Midlands airport and in Dubai after tip-offs to the intelligence services. The packages were bound from Yemen to the addresses of synagogues in Chicago.', reports the Financial Times (and lots of other papers).

So there you are, sitting in your synagogue in Chicago, writing your talk for next Saturday, and your spouse comes in and says there's a package from the Yemen just arrived.

"Eeeek!'

So why isn't there profiling of addresses of senders and recipients, of unlikely juxtapositions; why isn't there a non-acceptance of anything at all from certain countries?  Meanwhile innocent Ryanair passengers  are traipsing about half-clad on dirty floors , trying to keep half an eye on their valuables that have just disappeared into a dark hole and the other half on their trousers in all their beltlessness.

It isn't hard to work out who are the baddies, or where they come from.  So stop putting the rest of us through treating-everyone-equally purgatory.   That way,  those jetting off from London to Rome to save social democracy next weekend (in the Hotel Majestic? in the via Veneto? Or perhaps !! - clearly a case for profiling and special measures) will not inconvenience Angels flying in the opposite direction to see their family.