Neanderpundit

I don’t know how or where but people seem to be getting the impression that I’m OK with Mineta’s Morons. I have read what I wrote, and I cannot imagine how anyone would get that impression; the TSA is a bloated loaf of innefficient asininity, and there is no question that it does absolutely nothing to make anyone safer, and if they ever DO catch anyone, it is strictly by accident.

All the people telling me I shouild be OUTRAGED!!! YES, I SHOULD BE OUTRAGED BY THIS!! have missed the entire point of the post I made.

Being a dick to anyone, least of all a person in a position of authority over you, is stupid.

You can argue that they don’t deserve that authority, and you’d be right, but that is not the point.

You can argue that the authority they have is overreaching and unneceasary, and you’d be right, but that is also not the point.

Yoiu can argue that SOMEATHING OUGHT TO BE DONE!!! RIGHT NOW!!!! and you’d be right, but what? nobody answers that question. Nobody has the answer. As a reminder, even if somehow you managed to magically keep every one of the 1.8 million passengers per day OUT of the airports, as happened in the days after 9/11, the government will step in and use your tax dollars to prop the airlines up- and the loss of one or ten or a hundred thousand people who won’t go into air ports out of dislike for the TSA hurts the airline industry not at all.

There is no fix for this that I have ever heard.

At my last company there was a finance person who was a nitpicky pain in the ass about expense reports. More than once she refused to pay because the name of the restaurant was spelled wrong. She drove everyone nuts. And that’s exactly what she wanted to do. And it worked, for the most part. SHe was a puppeteer, an insignificant bitch who harshed everyone’s mellow by making everyone dance to her tune. I refused to dance then, I refuse to dance now. I cheerfully filled out the reports exactly as I was told and got her every piece of documentation she requested and never let her have the satisfaction of seeing me lose my cool.

She hated that. It drover her nuts that she couldn’t rattle me like she did everyone else.

THis is the best revenge, until there are real solutions. She eventually quit. The TSA mess will get worse or better, but I have yet to hear anyone say a single useful word about how to fix it. Or point out to me a place where I said I liked it (which does not exist) or agreed with it (which also does not exist) or tell me how acting like a petulant child while standing in line fixes a damned thing,

Againast my better judgement; less for the eyecandy stuff like Matrix than for things like Johnny Mnemonic, the Devils Advocate, and Constantine, which I’m watching now.

I like the visuals in Constantine, I like Gabriel as played by Tilda Swinton, I like Satan as played by Peter Stormare, but most of all I like Keanu as Constantine.

I likke stories of redemption. They don’t give me hope that I’ll ever acheive any, but they do make me reflect on my own life, and remind me of the wrongs I must redeem. They also remind me how much that redemption costs. I don’t know that I’d call this a good movie, but I enjoy it.