I'm one of those people who generally rolls his eyes at the knee-jerk "well quit your job then" chorus that usually pipes up about now.

However, I'd say when your job goes from 85% hassling grandmas to 50% hassling grandmas and 50% fondling the genitals of the obese, it might be time to consider night classes.

Agree with CC.

I'm not that type either. But hearing a TSA security employee complain about pat-downs is sort of like hearing a proctologist say he or she doesn't like looking up buttholes.

At that point, perhaps you'd prefer to specialize in another position in your field. There are other security jobs out there.

Or, if the point is that TSA employees are like the rest of Americans who don't support such invasive measures, then perhaps TSA employees should stop whining and join the chorus that we need to stop groping grandma just because she wants to fly to Duluth.

[Note: None of this addresses the fact that radioactive scanners take naked photos of children.]

At the moment, were I live, that´s the standard procedure for entering a concert venue. Hey, am with the band! (Drum Rolls). If they place metal detectors I would be happier.

I think that with all that´s been happening over yonder (long past tense), high security levels are indeed needed. But with high security efficient technology as well. Not this rudimentary.

But for the time being, if I was placed in that situation, and for securities sake, I wouldn't mind, and my trip would be "feel-me-up-baby that I don´t-wanna-blow-up-in-the-sky cuz some one slipped a bomb made from the Anarchist Cookbook disguised as a donut in his/her shirt pocket". Only if they would make the embarkments quicker. It´s nice to walk around the airport without shoes, it´s like dreamy, but not if they delay every flight one hour cuz of this.

What am trying to say is they must have (am sure they have) better and more efficient ways of protecting the people who are flying and are at airports.

That´s my view on it, for now. I have gotten more disturbed rubbings in the Undergrounds, Tubes, Metros from passengers, of both sexes.

Now, if grannies are being felt up, any one of yous have seen the movies Big Mommas House, Ms Doubtfire, and Tootsie? We have to be more clever than them. he.

They say that the TSA'ers stick their hands in your pants in order to expose their gloved hand to whatever is in there so that the glove can then be processed for explosives residue. My question is, why a gloved hand? Why not some sort of inanimate object or just stick a hose down there and sniff directly into the machine that detects explosives? Why does it have to be a person's hand? I can even imagine that residue can be detected right through someone's clothing without even touching it. I'm sure dogs can be trained to detect explosives as well. I have a sneaking suspicion that the enhanced pat down was suggested at a meeting about how to get people to accept the full body scans.