Via Village Voice, The Consumerist captures this image of a TSA help wanted ad inside a pizza box:
Of course, there's nothing wrong with pizza, but if this is really a top recruiting tool for TSA, it perfectly captures our current political dysfunction.
One the one hand, you've got Republicans who want to give these pizza box hires the authority to conduct racial and religious profiling at the airport. On the other, you've got a Democratic administration who wants them to feel your junk. And you know it's not going to be long before Harold Ford comes along with a Third Way and suggests a compromise of combining racial profiling AND junk touching. (Of course, that's really the same thing that the pro-profiling crowd in the GOP wants to see happen.)
Meanwhile, in the obsessive focus on profiling and junk-touching, neither of which is acceptable, nobody is really talking about the real issue: the need to have a public discussion about the level of risk we're willing to tolerate when it comes to commercial air travel, and to then figure out the best way to implement security protocols that achieve that level of risk. And for extra credit, maybe somebody could point out that TSA is the last line of defense: security begins long before passengers arrive at the airport, and if junk-touching or racial profiling are the most important parts of our security regime, we're fucked.