"At the 1980 NBA All-Star Game, league owners voted to admit the new team, with the team's name coming from the 1957–1962 TV western Maverick. James Garner, who played the namesake character, was a member of the ownership group.
"Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new system called MALINTENT turns the old school approach on its head. This Orwellian-sounding machine detects the person — not the device — set to wreak havoc and terror.
A concise summation by the NYT's Paul Krugman detailing the characteristics inherent in this decade's cult of macho posturing and anti-thinking. Mike Judge's film 'Idiocracy' creates a future world of borne of very similar themes.
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