BUT AT LEAST HE WASN’T A VICTIM OF ETHNIC PROFILING: Ted Kennedy was caught by the no-fly list. Plenty of people are yukking it up at his expense (Julian Sanchez: “As Dangerous in the Air as Behind the Wheel?”) but the worrisome part is that it took him three weeks worth of calls to Tom Ridge to get the problem fixed.

How long would it take someone who wasn’t a Senator to take care of this problem?