I have started opting out of the xray machine. That's what it is, you know. I know this because the titanium INSIDE my leg looks somewhat like a club with big screws sticking out of it. After TSA ran up and grabbed my leg after I stepped out of the scanner it's been on my mind. This thing is penetrating my skin. I'm opting out and just go for the full grope now. For a while there, a few years, TSA was all over me like a cheap suit. They'd open my pants, look at my junk...all kinds of stuff. I started having fun with it and let all the people standing in line watch it, "Let's give em a good show!", I'd say. I've never even had a speeding ticket so I don't know what the fuss was about. They've backed off. I'm the guy you want on the flight: patriotic, wanting to protect the innocent, can probably remove a man's jaw with my bare hands in five seconds (and beat him with it). I've never understood the TSA when looking at it from a high level. I try to work with them. But, man, sometimes they do the goofiest stuff - throwing away my sunblock with a toothless smile. Yelling at people like drill sergeants. Haha! Now a lot of them are looking like Rachel Levine...which I find charming.

I'm with you there, Craig

I would much rather pay extra for a random armed air marshal on the flight than all the TSA tomfoolery at the airport.

Excellent observation.
All to expand the wealth and power of the scum in D.C. and conspiring "business leaders."

Hmmm, let's see... the American people traded a near zero chance of being on a hijacked plane for a near 100% chance of being of being slapped around by government jerks.