Walt Amses: Aches on a plane

Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
You’d think the airline industry would be exempt from our current unraveling, if only because the general perception is that what’s going on up there couldn’t possibly get any worse. With maximum security level dehumanization, styrofoam-marinated cuisine, and stress positions that would enhance a CIA interrogation, all conspiring to create a pervasive, existential dread, airlines appear to have