THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

MSNBC reports the man infected with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis was advised not to travel but didn't want to miss his wedding in Greece or his honeymoon in Italy. Yet he "he feared he might die without treatment in the U.S." and managed to get himself back here rather than be treated in Italy. He tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution "I’m a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person...this is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I’ve cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing."

Yet my mother is not allowed to fly with an eight-ounce tube of Mary Kay Satin Hands Cream.