The New Normal

Where Have All The Wi-Fi Free Zones Gone?

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I stopped flying when they banned smoking. Chain-smoking Marlboros was the only way to pacify the growing panic I felt as we shot through the Stratosphere at 500 mph.

This was at the time of the Lockerbie bombing. For younger readers, on 21 December 1988, a 747 was blown out of the sky over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing everyone on…