( A note on recs, which you shouldn't read without having seen the episode. )Dear Editor: Just as I suspected: Homeland Security is everywhere, invading our most private moments -- even in the hospital! In the article “New imaging systems to help diagnose back pain," we are told that our pain might be pinpointed by “a few computerized censors" touching our flesh! What have the Republicans wrought!
We should have listened to Edgar Allan Poe, who warned us in “The Raven" of these lurking interlopers. He pointed out that -- even if they are invisible -- we can detect them by their smell:
“Then methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer ..."
