A Washington Post article, TSA Slated for Dismantling, suggests that the incompetent, mismanagaged, wasteful & inefficient, cost doubling, undertrained & corner-cutting, repeatedly failure-prone, safety illusion creating, rights violating, privacy violating (& cover up promoting), thievery enabling, sexual harassment promoting, hypocritical security side-stepping, long line creating, nail clipper, scissor, pocket knife/tool, tiny toy gun and cigarette lighter-confiscating, peanut butter sandwich thieving, elderly & disabled harassing, on the job sleeping, air marshal hemorrhaging, employee health hazard creating, and just generally awful Transportation Security Administration may soon be a thing of the past, or will at least have a much reduced role. The TSA director is also stepping down. One only wonders why this hasn't happened sooner...

But whatever will we do without federal airport security screeners to stage a little security theater for us to make everybody feel safe? Well, a return to private screeners is pretty easy to imagine - just another form of deregulation. But I tend to favor the radical suggestion of magician/comic Penn Jillette, who suggests that we Make The Terrorists Do the Profiling.