You ever notice the bizarre dance we all do at airport security? It’s a highly choreographed ballet of undressing and re-dressing. Take off the shoes! The belt! The jacket! The laptop out! The liquids out! Now, put it all in the grey bins. And you’re just standing there, in your socks, holding your pants up with one hand, juggling your life’s electronics, wondering if this really makes us safer. Because if the terrorists are so sophisticated, don’t you think they’ve figured out how to make a shoe bomb look like a regular shoe by now? We’re all doing the Hokey Pokey, ‘You put your laptop in, you pull your laptop out,’ and then we do it all over again on the other side. It’s like a public performance art piece, only no one’s clapping, and we’re all just trying to get to Cleveland.
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