Left out of Fresno (love the FAT designation...how many amateur travelers have written the airlines complaining about the FAT passenger designation on their ticket?) today...Saturday before Easter...AA to LAX at 6:28 p.m.

The AA counter alone had always 2 and sometimes 4 TSAers hanging around to process through 13 souls on the 6:28 to LAX. When I walked up, one bum was sitting on the luggage scale reading the sports section...he could barely mumble "are yuh check'n luggage" before I shot past him and woke the bored agents out of their slumber.

I sat and watched the Screening Area where, with 2 commuter flights boarding 1 or 2 hours apart and very light loads on both (I don't think I counted more than 30 traveling souls in the 2 hours I sat and watched) pass through. There must have been at least 12-15 TSAers standing around trying to look semi-concerned about Homeland Security. Plus, FAT has this series of ridiculous gates that they flip open as you pass one station after the next. Felt like a lamb to the slaughter.

This, of course does not count the other 10 plus luggage screeners over by the other airlines, most of which had already waved off their last flight of the day.

Plus, there seemed to be a small brigade (2-3) TSAers who seemed to be assigned the complex duty of walking about, sometimes with a coke or coffee, sometimes with a clipboard...guess that inconsistency is designed to throw off any would-be terrorists ("we can take him if he only has the clipboard, but Allah forbid if he has a freezing-cold coke that could splash into our eyes...let's go cruise the Wal-Mart, instead!")

This is one, tiny little airport that is a case study in wasted resources in the name of security. Pathetic.