Kip Hawley: Screening ideas are indeed thought up by the Office for Annoying Air Travelers and vetted through the Directorate for Confusion and Complexity, and then we review them to insure that there are sufficient unintended irritating consequences so that the blogosphere is constantly fueled.

He actually said that. The purpose of the TSA is to fuel the blogosphere. They annoy you with unreasonable travel regulations in order to get you to talk about it on the Internet, which helps drive ad revenue and ultimately leads to greater consumption of consumer products, which, of course, causes increased incomes, and therefore, tax revenue, which the TSA spends on new annoyances. Its called Keynesian economics, bitches!