If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been taking some time off after a very rough busy season. I needed to take some time to reconsider my chosen career. Busy season did a number on me and I was left wondering if this is really what I want to be when I grow up. I haven’t made a decision yet, but I’m leaning in one direction.

Anyway, I’ve been traveling a lot. I just returned from the right coast this afternoon. I’m no fan of the TSA - I would be if those weenies could ever get underwire figured out. Anyway, I saw this and I had to laugh. As I was unloading my quart size baggie containing lethal amounts of lip gloss and contact lense drops, my boots, my laptop, my inhaler, my briefcase and my handbag, I happened to look over at the TSA guy directing passenger traffic. As he was confiscating liquid items over 3 oz or not in baggies….he was throwing them all in the same bin.

I laughed. I laughed a good belly laugh that brought tears to my eyes. As a nation we’re told we’re safer because the TSA is on high alert for dangerous chemical explosives. So dangerous passengers are told they need to be inconvenienced and restricted in the name of national sercurity. This TSA agent determined the various items weren’t dangerous, otherwise he wouldn’t have thrown them in the same bin together. Yet these items didn’t fit the government’s requirements so they had to be disposed of. Now isn’t that just the summation of most government activities?

In full disclosure - I read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged for the first time this weekend. Maybe that had an influence on my mood and my amusement.