Folks -- Before you run out and dutifully buy this stuff in Chertoff-approved 3oz containers like compliant American Sheople, compare the apples-to-apples cost per unit of the TSA-approved size and the 55-gallon drums of the same stuff in the regular cosmetics aisle. The price difference per unit is enormous. Shampoo and listerine and, I suspect, some women's cosmetics are easily refillable. Toothpaste and deordorant are a bit more problematic. I haven't tried refilling a toothpaste tube yet, but there's always a first time.

All of the airport vendors will be pushing their "fly-away" kits at mega-bucks. Woe to anybody who actually buys stuff. Using the Spiff boycott approach, I suspect the loss of airside vendor revenue following 8/10 may have had more to do with yesterday's pronouncement than the TSA will ever admit. If there is no appreciable increase in revenue as of yesterday, we will send the message that Hawley hasn't gone far enough.