Just when you may have thought that the Transportation Safety Agency has plumbed the depths of bureaucratic inanity, they manage to find a deeper pit. If you don't act really nice and smile at the airport, they are going to suspect that you are a terrorist. They are looking for facial expressions indicating "fear or disgust".
I hope they have enough room to do secondary screening on everyone, for unless you are flying in your own airplane or a NetJets charter, "fear" and "disgust" pretty much sum up the state of air travel during the Reign of the Chimperor. I know of nobody anymore, other than the criminally insane, who looks upon airline travel as a joy and a treat. The only difference between airline travel and dental work is the airlines usually get you to a different city, but without any Novocaine.
And may God have mercy on your soul if you frequent bookstores, coffeshops or if you have never been in trouble with the law, because the NYPD thinks those are indications that you may be a terrorist.
Ever get the feeling that we are not going to have to wait 500 years for the rise of the idiotocracy?
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