Hitchens is like a little girl in that when he argues for something I believe in, he is very very good, and when he is bad he is horrid. In this case, I'm grateful to have him on my side and thanks Slog for posting the link.

Buck Howdy has posted this C&W assault on the TSA, with an emphasis on black TSA workers processing white passengers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8jGVXOM…

@1 At 1:27, isn't that Kate Beckinsdale? And does that guy at 1:44 have a boner? Sheesh.

I kind of think Hitchens gets a boner from writing "the enemy". A lovely French public intellectual whose name escapes me wrote immediately after the attacks that whoever was behind it knew full well that, at the dawn of an era of a ravenous starving media (hey Slog!), the event would embed in us the habit of self-terrorizing. The enemy that will destroy us is us, and we have many triggers, and al Quaeda pulled only one of them.

Good thing most people are aware of the relative risk of being killed by a terrorist as compared to a drunk driver. From the news I can only guess they're about equal.

Ah hell, I'm looking forward to my pat down tomorrow. I hope the guy who does it is hot.

Is it so difficult for you find and pay a private business to pat you down, that you have to rely on government handouts?

I'll take a freebie when I can get one.

"The enemy is inventive and imaginative. ...."?

not really-

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arch…

http://i.imgur.com/XNCiU.jpg

THE TRUTH (as told by your least favorite movie: Sleepless in Seattle):

Co-Worker: It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!
Annie: That statistic is not true!
Becky: That's right it's not true, but it feels true.

Who gives a flying fuck what this asshole thinks? He's a dead man walking, serving no purpose on Earth other than as a crash dummy for experimental cancer treatments.

You have several choices...
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1) Drive your piggy, gas-hog SUV (and DON'T call or text!)
2) Amtrak, UPS or FedEx (pack carefully!)
3) Greyhound or other large dog (bring Alpo!)
4) Crawl, pushing a peanut with your nose (reserved for GOP/TP'ers only!)
5) Receive an impersonal frisk or x-ray that does more to protect OTHER passengers from YOU than it does to protect you (a terrorist?!) from them
6) Be awakened by blood-curdling screams during a cat-nap and look out your window to see an office building a few hundred feet away from you, approaching at 500mph -- bon voyage!

Get vaporized in a conflagration of thousands of gallons of charcoal lighter (that's what jet fuel is, basically: kerosene) with twisted, melting aluminum and burning, stinking, bloodshot flesh.
... or ...
Act like a sensible, non-whining adult and let the TSA official either x-ray or frisk you.

By the way, Amanda-the-Hottie and Big Ben, you're not nearly as cool or well-endowed as you think you are!
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To whiners: "How can you be so obtuse? Is it deliberate?"

Personally, I'd like to give you sniveling bitchers a cavity check using a backhoe.

@CharlesYFarley,
What the hell are you so pissed about?
Calm down before you give yourself an aneurysm.

Urgutha, I'm kind of hoping he does give himself an aneurism; that way we won't have to read his whackadoodle posts any more.

@15 whomp!

OK, I'm going to play devils advocate here. What do you guys propose as an alternative? Different security? No security? What would you have them do?

I'll start us out. Go back to the security we had 10 years ago, or something fiscally equivalent, and accept a certain number of deaths. That's one option but if we go with that option then when a plane blows up over Seattle none of you guys can bitch about it. Work for you? If not, and you don't like our current security what better security do you propose?

NONSENSE. WE ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO ANY FILTHY CAMEL-RIDING TERRORIST. USA! USA! USA! USA!
COCKSLAP KEY IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME MIRITE?

@8: They're imaginative and inventive, they're just not smart or skilled. Wile E. Coyote is the same way.

@18
They're smart enough to know how to bankrupt our country for under $5,000.

@17,
Here's what I think they should do:

1. Hire plainclothes security personnel to wander the airport and profile people who are likely threats. When they point someone out, that person is then selected for private screening/questioning... not torture or anything, just investigation.

2. Keep the security theater going and tell everyone how effective all the x-rays and backscatter machines and whatever are, but in truth, just make them a bunch of non-functional bogus pipelines that don't detect anything (well, maybe have the metal detectors be real at least).

3. Use the money that's supposedly buying all these fancy machines to instead train and employ the plainclothes officers.

Who knows, maybe they're doing this already? Me and 5280 were chatting about this very thing last Saturday, but the alcohol may have erased some of the more specific points.

What Hitchins said.

Hitchens is just pissed that he can't bring his gallon jug of Johnny Walker on the plane with him anymore.

You don't remember the specific points, Urgutha? I can't imagine why.

@19: How the fuck does that imply intelligence?