The boss might like it -- funny how that works.

To screeners who post here: I might like you personally, but, sorry, I despise anybody whose only alternative for employment is torturing fellow citizens. You could be delivering pizzas, or selling shoes, or greeting folks at WalMart.

Instead, most of you have that job 'cause you love lording it over others. You enjoy telling us that something idiotic is for our own good. You are, as pointed out above, very good at parroting "it's just our orders".

How many of you have failed to be hired by local police departments? That would be telling, but probably an unachievable statistic.

Your job does not make us more secure. It probably makes us less secure, by making airline finances more precarious. What will make us more secure is passengers who no longer believe passivity is the right response to terror, and information systems that can flag dangerous individuals.

Nothing in the current airport security system is better than random ineffectuality. That would be much cheaper, eh?

If you, personally, are not like that, you are extraordinary.