Not sure if this will get the topic back on topic. 
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...afafc0adcff1a9
TSA has met the enemy _ and they are us
(excerpts)
How did an agency created to protect the public become the target of so much public scorn?
After nine years of funneling travelers into ever longer lines with orders to have shoes off, sippy cups empty and laptops out for inspection, the most surprising thing about increasingly heated frustration with the federal Transportation Security Administration may be that it took so long to boil over.
Elliott said that better communication would probably win the TSA more cooperation. But the pushback suggests that a growing number of consumers, particularly frequent travelers, are questioning the premise at the heart of the agency's existence.
"I think at some point Americans said to themselves, maybe in their collective subconscious...there's a line here where it's not just worth it anymore," he said. "There's a growing sense that that line has been crossed."
For something funny on this subject, check out SNL's TSA "commercial"
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/...ds-up-the-tsa/