Question One: Will the Transportation Safety Administration soon get its own separate listing on eHarmony.com?
I’m heading from California to Connecticut for a family Thanksgiving and am anticipating a TSA body scan and/or pat down. Usually I tell people I’m traveling “for the Thanksgiving spread” — but this isn’t what I had in mind.
This year due to the economy turkey donations are down. Perhaps it’s because all of the turkeys are serving in Congress. But not all:
You have to wonder about the Obama Administration and TSA officials who have so utterly failed to explain why TSA is doing the enhanced body scans and “intimate” pat downs that attracted so much negative publicity that some ask whether TSA should be renamed T&A. TSA isn’t using new technology and old-school, police-style body pat downs because they find their jobs boring and want something new to do.
I was scanned at San Diego’s airport in early September and it didn’t bother me. TSA officials didn’t stand around, point to my body scan and laugh. On the other hand, they didn’t run over and congratulate me, either. So they didn’t ruin – or make – my day.
There are all kinds of potential (lame) jokes here: TSA is groping for a hands-on airline security solution…TSA is trying to get a feel of the traveling public…TSA agents’ favorite sport is handball…TSA will open a bakery specializing in buns…Andy Horowitz had the best Twitter line: “Last night during sex my wife cried out the name of a TSA employee.”
Late night comedians are thanking God:
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UPDATE: Of course, some bigwigs don’t have to go through the scanner and pat downs unless the reset of us “little people.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.