Dancing the Continental on Flat Feet

Way, way back, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were on the silver screen, in glorious black-and-white, performing a complicated dance called the Continental.

Complicated? Change that to convoluted and you have the 2002 version. Continental now is an airline. The dance is a tricky two-step, loaded with asterisks and hidden conditions.

Yeah, yeah, we all are used to duplicitous gimmicks