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Playmobil reviewers vent on airport security

The customer review section of Amazon.com probably isn’t the first place you would think to look for witty and insightful commentary on the post-9/11 air travel security nonsense The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg has appropriatelyy dubbed “security theater.”  But that’s the kind of feedback the Playmobil Security Check Point set has inspired. For example: I was a little disappointed when I first bought this […]