Alas, the Evil Empire State of New York sent a Republican named Alphonse D’Amato to the US Senate from 1981-1999. And this past Monday, the former sponge “was removed from a delayed New York-bound JetBlue flight … after trying to rally passengers against the flight crew.” He had excellent cause for such mutiny, namely a 6-hour delay in the plane’s departure: The crew was trying to move passengers to address a weight imbalance, an airline spokesman said. A passenger, Jeffrey A. Wurst, said that the plane’s captain explained that about 10 people needed to move to the back of the … Continue reading Do We Cheer Alphonse or The Other Passengers?