Monday Reading

Hank Stuever: Two of Washington's airports — Dulles and Reagan National — will soon be part of the federal government's Registered Traveler program, which offers passengers the happy prospect of getting through security lines faster, swifter, better. (Ninety thousand of them and counting have enrolled.) All you need do is pay an annual fee — $100 to start, plus a $28 shakedown so the government can make sure you're, you know, okay. Next you submit all sorts of personal information, fingerprints and, because the future is now, an eyeball scan.

Then you are all clear.

Dan Barry: Imagining that late December night of long darkness, you can almost hear these youths of Vermont tramping up to the…