MOOP!

Yikes. That all sucks, I'm sorry.

Fighting the good fight, and all that. Just wish it didn't feel so damn futile.

"The good fight" (= a position that is right, if not always popular) usually feels futile until it's won.

I'm hoping that this new policy will be the one that finally goes a step too far enough that there's actually a real backlash against the TSA (real as in policy-changing). Although Fivethirtyeight had an article (http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/the-full-body-backlash/) the other day that mentions a poll where 81% of respondents support the scans, so who knows. The poll makes no mention of the alternative opt-out grope, though, and was conducted a week-10 days ago, which kind of seems like before the furor over the scans/gropes really came to a head, as it were, so I'd bet that a large part of that 81% were unaware of the negatives and lack of positives for the whole thing.

Totally unrelated to the topic of the post, if you have to be stabbed, it's much better it be a sharp knife than a blunt one. More of a clean slice, less ripping and tearing. (This is why sharp tools of all kinds are supposed to be kept sharp, in addition to that obviously being part of their function.)