I bought my wife a one-way ticket from PNS to ATL for use yesterday and warned her about the asinine TSA dumbots at PNS. She had a small bag with clothes and her tolietries. She put her toothpaste, deodorant, and something else in her purse and left her shampoo in the carryon. The only thing she was worried about was her lib balm and she placed that inside her bra. The brilliant TSA screener confiscated her shampoo (she didn't have a baggie to put it in) and warned her about such behavior in the future. She sweetly told him that shampoo was basically an inert agent and when he learned some basic chemistry, he was free to chastise her about such items. Until then, he should just stick to following orders from idiots such as Kip Hawley. He rolled his eyes at her and closed her carryon (never even glancing at her purse).

Amazingly enough, the plane landed safely in Atlanta and none of the prohibited items detonated in flight. I guess Kip Hawley is still an idiot and those enforcing stupidity are as clueless as the PHB in the Dilbert cartoons.

- Alan