The Mist of Propaganda

April Fool's Day has come one day earlier this year, with this morning's news of David Hicks' sentencing and the extremely transparent condition that he may not speak to the press for the first year of his sentence - which brings us past the next federal election, of course. And also giving Ruddock, Downer et al a serious hard-on, the absurd new carry-on rules for international flights, wherein potentially explosive lip-glosses and deodorants are required to be sealed in plastic ziplock sandwich bags. Sadly, that size bag does not fit my new bottle of Clarins Expertise e3p Screen Mist, which is supposed to protect the skin from electromagnetic waves as well as urban pollution. How perfect it would have been on a flight!