Albert Einstein said, "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." And he should know from whence he speaks (I'm referring to escape from the Third Reich, not Einstein's Nobel Prize in physics).

I found another great quote that pretty much sums up my attitude toward the TSA. Just think of the TSA as the men and the passengers as the women in this little analogy:

"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ..., and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition."

Outwardly respecting the TSA is my way of mocking this worthless institution.