This is a good place to post how disgusted I am with the airline industry over the TSA pocketknives thing. Both the companies and the unions are going all in favor of continued groping of passengers because they're skeered of a little pocketknife. As NBC(!) pointed out this morning, small knives have been allowed on many overseas flights flown by those same airlines, and there have been no reported incidents.

Hey airlines: We're not "butts in seats". We're human beings, just like you. And just like you, we've got jobs to do and places to get to. And if we have to be sexually molested in order to patronize you, we'll find some other mode of transportation.

When an Air Force wing flunks an operational readiness inspection, the wing commander and his or her immediate subordinates quickly start making post-Air Force career plans. I'm sure something similar happened in the Newark TSA case.

Oh, wait, the Post says, "No one was disciplined for the failure at Newark — the same airport where 9/11 hijackers were able to smuggle boxcutters onto Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania before it could reach Washington."

So much for that. But I do like the Post's liberal use of hyperbole: "The Post exclusively revealed last week how the screeners colossally failed a Feb. 25 test at the Terminal B checkpoint, allowing a fed to get an improvised explosive device through a magnetometer and a secondary pat-down. [emphasis added]"

Your title Advice Goddess Blog covers the navigation links in Chrome. I tried zooming in and out but it's still there. It looks fine in Firefox but I like Chrome.

you don't treat every American, including U.S. Senators, like a probable al Qaeda member

Sure you do. That way you can put them on drone watch list, and if you deem them to be an imminent threat, you can take them out.

DoJ says it's OK, so it must be legal.

TSA's force of unskilled workers at the airport who take money for violating American's genitals, dignity, and Fourth Amendment rights

Forgot to snark, they also get the opportunity to engage in a little larceny if they feel like it, and get the chance. Of course, they can also take payoffs to ignore the drugs being smuggled onto aircraft.

And they're only being told it's drugs. Could be weapons, could be explosives. Don't know, don't care, so long as the payment is right.

Also, I don't see a problem with the web site. But I'm using Chromium, the open source variant of Chrome on Linux.

Everything looks fine in Firefox. Haven't even opened Chrome since I installed it.

I think I'll have to invest in the ACME Supply Company. Looks like they'll be doing a booming business pretty soon.

(Pardon the pun. Or not!)

I agree with the poor TSA screener. Since we conclude it's impossible for them to do the job, let's stop wasting all this time and money, and quit trying.

"It's not like they're using a cartoonish bundle of dynamite with an alarm clock strapped to it," Bob Burns of the TSA Blog Team posted on the agency's Web site.

"The items are extremely hard to spot."

That's why we created the TSA - to spot the items.

If it can't be done by the otherwise unemployable minimum wage job rejects hired by the TSA to do this, then why have a TSA?

If it was easy, we'd just post a notice in every airport saying, "Call this number if you see a bearded guy in a keffiyeh carrying a bomb and ululating while screaming 'Death to America.'"

" Since we conclude it's impossible for them to do the job, let's stop wasting all this time and money, and quit trying." MarkD

Ah, the naive youth... Government doesn't work that way, my fine young man.

Once they have decided what is RIGHT they will spare no expense to make the righteous thing reality, no matter the consequence.

And if, in the longer run, 'tis discovered that it was near impossible, they will count the work well done as they strove mightily. Public rule of law be damned.

:very level look:

Man, how I wish I was joking.

Flew from Chicago to Miami then on to Dominican Republic last week. TSA agent went through my bag and found a jar of Mineral Ice muscle rub. He got so excited he called a supervisor over and I was frisked. They found a Trident gum wrapper in my pocket. They did not appreciate the exceptionally loud gales of laughter to the point of tears from my entire group and everyone around us when they found out what all the hubbub was about. The TSA agent got very red in the face.

Perfect strategy, they humiliate us, we do the same to them. Laugh at them for the douchebags they are.