Adam Savage gets his junk scanned and still winds up boarding a plane with a couple of 12-inch razor blades.

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So tell me again how these new procedures are supposed to be making us safe?

Anyone opting out of the new TSA nuke-or-grope procedures will not be permitted to leave the security area and go home.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be ( Read more... )

Since it's come to my attention that some folks think that only people with "bad attitudes" are being abused by TSA personnel, I'll link two of the latest examples of the work being done by our defenders of freedom.

A breast cancer survivor is forced to remove her prosthetic breast.

A bladder cancer survivor's urostomy bag is ripped open.This is ( Read more... )

Horror stories from the airport security lines. (Trigger warnings for sexual assault.)

Here's Change.org's petition to change the new procedures. I'm sure there are others ( Read more... )

So. A man collapses during a presentation at your school. Do you:

1) Check to make sure he's breathing.
2) Call 911.
3) Update your Twitter.

If you chose option 3, you're a USC student.

Alastair Fairbanks, a USC senior in attendance for Nye's presentation, told the Los Angeles Times that "nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he ( Read more... )

Christine O'Donnell, constitutional scholar.

The comment came during a debate on WDEL radio with Democratic opponent Chris Coons, who argued that local schools should teach science rather than religion, at which point O’Donnell jumped in. “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” she asked ( Read more... )