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So if the TSA is so messed up (as this article describes (I particularly like the boomerang story, scroll down a bit for it)), what can be done about it? Somehow I doubt Kerry would have the balls to roll it all back (or just disband the thing). Is there any politically plausible but productive reform?

Vaguely interesting thing here about disagreement over immigration policy in the Sierra Club. Which seems sort of weird to me, because immigration is just a redistribution of population, and wouldn't any adverse impacts here be offset by reduced impacts where the immigrants are coming from, not to mention which industrialized countries may actually be more set up to handle population increases, and giving more people access to American-level health care and reproductive freedom seems like it would tend to slow down population growth if anything... I don't know, it just seems weird to me. (For what it's worth, the Sierra Club position on population growth seems entirely sensible to me, which I guess makes me a "neo-Malthusian" too. I'm not really sure how one can avoid coming to the conclusion that quality of life and birth rate seem to be,er, somewhat negatively correlated on the national level, but apparently that makes me "pessimistic about technology". Who knew.)

Also, I did not know that the cofounder of Greenpeace was now a biotech advocate. Go him, though! I want to see those ads he talks about at the end.

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Having curly hair, I don't use a regular comb; I use a pick. The plastic ones turn me into a walking mass of static electricity, so I use the old metal kind. I always carry one in my purse, and when I travel, there's another in the bag with my toiletries. Most of the time, there's no trouble, but several times, the screeners have decided that I could do lethal damage with my hair picks. Maybe I could, if I were ninjagirl instead of eastgategirl, but the screeners don't seem to use logic in their decision-making process. What is this country (and the world, since my picks have also been confiscated in Spain and Italy) coming to???