A new extreme in our growing aversion to math:
Guido Menzio, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, was pulled off of an American Airlines regional jet from Philadelphia to Syracuse because he was doing math.
I'm guessing the logic goes something like this:
Numbers are Arabic.
Many Arabs are Muslim.
A few Muslims are terrorists.
Therefore anyone doing math on a plane is writing in secret code and looking to blow the plane out the sky.
QED.
