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• Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:56 PM

  this is hilarious

  Really, you've outdone yourself on this one. I was cracking up reading this, and the comments in response, are also hilarious.

  I swear to god. Without salon.com I would have lost my mind with this administration. I look forward to reading columns on this website, because I can't bear the t.v. media and my local newspaper is full of crap op eds by pundits talking about Obama really being smart by "moving to the center." Plus, is there anything more humorless than the political class and media punditry?

  Would someone in the next administration please fix the Dept. of Homeland Security? Start by changing it's name, because the name alone screams BE VERY AFRAID OF LIVING. Then completely change the T.S.A., since the chance that the next terrorist attack will come in the form of someone flying airplanes into buildings is, well, nil. Does anyone think that someone on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is saying, "Hmmm, I know...Let's fly commercial jets into very tall buildings?"

  Come on. TSA is a way to disguise that the government bureaucrats who were supposed to be paying attention to information they were getting prior to 9/11, ignored what they were told. Yes, there has to be better security than before 9/11, because, um, there wasn't really any, but T.S.A. has nothing to do with security. It's just a big job creations program. For people with authoritarian personality disorders who like to yell, don't have high i.q.s and perceive themselves as not having gotten enough respect in life.

  I don't mind Patrick's stories about T.S.A., because they are funny and educational. Who would have thought that a pilot couldn't carry a white plastic old "knife" through security? Because some idiots would call it "serrated."

  I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe Halliburton should take over t.s.a. Nah, the same people would be in those jobs with their psychological disorders. Never mind.

  —calbears Read calbears's other letters
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