TSA fails 95% of the time in tests to smuggle guns explosives onto planes

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16. They are training us to accept random gropings.

It has nothing to do with "security."

My brother, who is even more likely to say out loud what he's thinking than I am, has been "punished" with secondary inspections several time now. (He's the most gentle soul I know, an artist creating new interpretations of old motorcycles and other mechanical things.)

I hate flying to begin with.

I don't like being crammed into a pressurized aluminum tube with my knees pressed up against the seat in front of me, hurtling through the air at 450 miles per hour. I don't like being scrutinized as a weird evasive person either. Yes, this is my laptop held together with hot glue and yellow duct tape booting Linux to the command line, and it does look suspicious to someone expecting a Windows Desktop.

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The last time I flew they swabbed my computer down with magic explosive detecting stuff, which might have turned out badly given some of my scientific and horticultural interests, which sometimes involve a few very tightly wound nitrogen compounds.