As I write this, Edward Snowden is moping his way through exile in the Moscow airport. He can't leave because crossing through passport control would mean legally entering…
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Some years ago, some of the folks behind F5, an alternative weekly newspaper here in Wichita, started a different (and, as it turned…
Beauty is the beginning and end of all true knowledge: really to know, one must first love, and having known, one must finally delight; only this “corresponds” to…
This doesn’t even make sense from the viewpoint of plain old identification. Teeth are far more permanent than an expression, and descriptions of suspects often include “gold tooth” or “missing lower teeth”.
Since the only time that it’s really necessary to produce a driver’s license is when you’re pulled over by the cops, it seems apt that we should be smile-less. Maybe they should have the photographer wear jackboots and leathers to get us in the mood…
They are at least correct that a dour, smileless expression in their databanks will be required to identify us in the future they seem to have in mind.
Wow, Kafka arrives in Virginia. I’m due for a new one from VA DMV in September, looks like I will be experiencing this soon. I am smiling away in my previous DL. What a mockery of self-government – now we cannot even smile for driver’s license pictures, and there is little we can do about it.
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polistra
This doesn’t even make sense from the viewpoint of plain old identification. Teeth are far more permanent than an expression, and descriptions of suspects often include “gold tooth” or “missing lower teeth”.
Patrick Deneen
Since the only time that it’s really necessary to produce a driver’s license is when you’re pulled over by the cops, it seems apt that we should be smile-less. Maybe they should have the photographer wear jackboots and leathers to get us in the mood…
forestwalker
They are at least correct that a dour, smileless expression in their databanks will be required to identify us in the future they seem to have in mind.
Steve K.
Wow, Kafka arrives in Virginia. I’m due for a new one from VA DMV in September, looks like I will be experiencing this soon. I am smiling away in my previous DL. What a mockery of self-government – now we cannot even smile for driver’s license pictures, and there is little we can do about it.
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