I understand that people are discussing the nature of the latest terrorist threat and its many implications, especially political.  All that aside, I am in "a state" about the sudden imposition of new rules at the airport. Just today, I saw an AP photo of an older woman applying lipstick before being asked to pitch it in a bag.  This, in the name of "having a safe trip."  
How is this "no liquids" policy sustainable with millions who fly?
 Over the last few years,  we started with carrying government issued photo id's in order to board the planes, metal detectors we walk through, and then moved to walking around in our socks and, in my case, having to be hand searched by airport security EVERY TIME I FLY...