As mentioned in GMN, the poop is hitting the fan regarding this video in which a gang of TSA security guards pats down a young boy with his shirt off. In their defense, they say the dad took the shirt off for them and didn’t have a problem with it—which really isn’t any defense at all, is it?
Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.) More by Wm. Steven Humphrey

I’d like to have the rubber glove concession for the TSA.
Does PDX have the backscatter things yet? I haven’t been since mid-October and they didn’t have them then.