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Patrick:
No amount of writing about this topic would tire me out. I frequently think of the scene in Fargo where the guy operating the parking lot gate won't open it despite the fact that Buscemi has been shot in the face. Naturally, Buscemi does what we all wish we could do which is blast a hole in the ridiculous person who feels all powerful because they have some idiotic function that they take waaaay too seriously. The worst part about it all is that - just by writing this in an email - I seriously paused to consider whether I should relay a scene from a movie and place it in the context of shooting a TSA "officer" since this will probably make its way through some NSA spy network to some functionary in "Homeland" Security (I guess Fatherland and Motherland were taken by the Nazis and Soviets respectively) who will ban me from flying for life. All I can say is thank goodness Virgin flies out of the international terminal at SFO - security is much less virulent in international. And yes, I fly Virgin whenever I can for this reason alone.
