Well, lessee...

The well-balanced TSA screener in Seattle Monday decided to call the supervisor, because... GG was not gung-ho for the chit-chat. That's right, we got called on not being cheerful enough.

Fortunately, the supervisor was intelligent and seemed truly interested in discerning threats from noise. I explained that we did not care for their procedures, did not care to be condescended to about how much we should like them, but were very focussed on proving we were not a threat and getting through to our flight.

We were passed through with no more than normal crap.

But that initial screener was on the ultimate power trip!

Tell me, why should we PRETEND we like this stupid system? I know enough about statistics to know how worthless it is... and then the *itch at the screening machine wants us to pretend we like it? Well, we don't. It's crap, and they should be told that occasionally.

And the ones on a power trip should be fired.

Osama wins again! Aren't you happy?