No. Quite the contrary, in fact.

Look, people criticize Bob all the time for not talking about TSA when it hits current events ... putting up "puppy posts" and the like instead of talking about Crabtree or TSIs breaking temperature probes or NippleGate or whatever the TSA Foul-Up Du Jour happens to be.

In these two instances, Bob is actually trying to get out in front of the stories. Granted, he's got a viewpoint to promote. (Of course, so do I, and so does anyone else with a blog.) And, granted, the viewpoint he wants to promote puts TSA in a favorable light, and the stories give him a vehicle to do that.

So I'm inclined to give Bob some credit here. He posted two items about two recent events (if you call publishing an XKCD comic an "event") with TSA's reaction. Isn't that what he's supposed to be doing (among other things)?

Look, there are plenty of reasons to criticize TSA in general, and the TSA Blog in particular. But if we don't give TSA some positive reinforcement when they do things closer to the way we want them done, why should they bother changing? You get the behavior you reward.

Of course, I'm the eternal optimist. Your mileage may vary.