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I love how that description fits Archer, too!

Any chance we see the return of Len Trexler? So much potential for a Conway Stern/Len Trexler/Barry collaboration in seeking revenge against ISIS!

There're only 18 Americans to summit K2? Wow, I expected more.

I declined to go through the X-ray body scanner, so I was shuffled off to the side while this woman, clearly upset I was inconveniencing her by trying to limit my radiation exposure (despite the fact they allowed a family of 4 immediately after me to move through the standard metal detector when THEY "opted out") shouts "OPT OUT I GOT AN OPT OUT". She does this for the next 15 mins, all the while telling me she "had someone on their way." Eventually she got another dude that had been standing around the whole time to do it, his demeanor even more clearly hostile. He threw my bags on top of my sunglasses and phone before he fondled me, too. Unfortunately, I needed to catch my flight soon and I didn't have the time to complain. I don't fly very often but my experience with TSA leaves me with the impression that they recruit idiots who want to act like thugs right alongside poor, uneducated drones simply trying to make a living. Neither case makes our flights any safer, irregardless of the policies implemented. The security is only as good as it's weakest link.

I wouldn't have been the first to complain and I wouldn't be the last. You almost sound as if my silence is somehow keeping the lid on how shitty the TSA is. Everybody knows. The policy-makers in Washington (the only people who support the TSA) don't care. Fuck the TSA.

I feel like groping is forcefully sliding a hand across someone's body. When I last went through the TSA, I was fondled when the dude cupped his hand around my balls and shaft not once, not twice, not even three times, but four fucking times this dude grabbed my junk. I was honestly too shocked to even call him out on it, I just wanted out of there -- it was creepy as fuck.

You read like a TSA PR rep, albiet a pretty clever, level-headed one.

If you are being professional and polite, of course myself, along with the majority of passengers, are going to treat you with respect. In my experience my opinions on the TSA would not put me in the minority, although I'm positive this distinction will fall on generational lines.

The root of my concern with the TSA lies in the fact that I don't believe it's existence actually makes flights realistically safer -- at all. If it did, I could better tolerate the shortcomings of the employees and the policies they are paid to promote -- and the huge sums of taxpayer funding it gobbles up.