There's nothing "holier-than-thou" about not liking the way the TSA has approached the problem of security in our airports. In fact, the next person in line has just as much right to a swift passage through security as I do, which is why I detest the proposition of a "trusted traveler" program as a solution to the nonsense. The fact is that some things, such as the no-reason wandings the one screener in BOS used to be so fond of giving me, have simply got to go.

For the record, I'm not one to blame the screeners for our TSA-related woes, either. I actually like (most of) the TSA screeners a lot better than (most of) their pre-TSA counterparts. At least the TSA folks don't yell at me in their loudest, most heavily accented, most ghetto English that I'm taking too long getting the keys out of my pocket. Keep the screeners; it's the management that needs so badly to be replaced.