Jonathan Last Online (Bypass if sick of TSA Threads)

[Pacifist Patriot]

http://jonathanlast.com/2010/11/16/take-the-tsa-please/

This guy is both funny and sensible.

My little quip about the TSA employing better-looking agents was clearly inadequate. Among other things, they’d also need to allow passengers to select the sex of their patter-downer. And a champagne room. They’d need a couple of those. Also lots of Def Leppard. If the TSA just thought creatively about the problem, you could have a sizable number of travelers yelling “allahu akbar” in line, just hoping to be selected for special scrutiny. <snip>

Some day terrorism in the West may be a multi-cultural phenomenon. This is not that day. The unhappy fact is that there are no Wiccan terrorists. There are no 3-year-old terrorists. There are no Unitarian terrorists. The odds that any given passenger on an American flight will be a terrorist are very, very, very, very small–probably somewhere in the ballpark of 1 in 400 million. But the odds that a 90-year-old Chinese nun will be a terrorist are so infinitesimal as to approach zero.<snip>

I think SkinsFanPG's comment at the bottom of the blog is wonderful.

[October]

1. True. SkinsFanPG is spot on. /nt