tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post1524173979257986759..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: TSA FatalitiesGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-13434717483764376952012-12-01T04:25:03.831-06:002012-12-01T04:25:03.831-06:00Yes. Yesteryear's laughingstocks strut about a...Yes. Yesteryear's laughingstocks strut about as today's moral and political authorities.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-39723833309837341262012-11-30T23:05:55.174-06:002012-11-30T23:05:55.174-06:00Yo, Gus, quite true. I guess the part that is surp...Yo, Gus, quite true. I guess the part that is surprising is that a grown man would reveal it so...memorably. Societally speaking, it really is a debased age we live in.Snedcatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-12306884987867729392012-11-30T13:43:28.558-06:002012-11-30T13:43:28.558-06:00No surprise there: The biggest bullies are the one...No surprise there: The biggest bullies are the ones who feel inadequate in one way or another.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-76799299822536689532012-11-30T07:11:59.225-06:002012-11-30T07:11:59.225-06:00The scary pause-giving aspect of it is that he was...The scary pause-giving aspect of it is that he was a bigwig at TSA for awhile. Is that really how they view us? Probably. It is revealing though that he's so sensual about obedience to uniformed authority. I guess you could say that while in public he was nearly at the top of the TSA, in his heart and in private he's all bottom.<br /><br />Or, "But you say 'jack-booted thug' like that's a <i>bad</i> thing!"Snedcatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-49697424504675229782012-11-30T06:13:09.336-06:002012-11-30T06:13:09.336-06:00"In part we do it to keep our place in the hi..."<i>In part we do it to keep our place in the hierarchy of guys. But in the end, what we’re really hoping for is an Alice Munro moment — that our easy concentration and economical movements will set up in someone 'a procession of sparks and chills,' followed a few pages later by, well, what we deserve for all that demonstrated competence.</i>"<br /><br />Oh, no! He's figured me out...<br /><br />Not. But that is an interesting confession of a fear of inadequacy on <i>his</i> part.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-9932733197301706692012-11-30T01:16:56.508-06:002012-11-30T01:16:56.508-06:00Yo, Gus, speaking of the TSA, you should check out...Yo, Gus, speaking of the TSA, you should check out this pitiful bit of <a href="http://www.volokh.com/2012/11/24/sex-secrets-of-the-security-line/" rel="nofollow">pro-TSA buffoonery</a> at Volokh Conspiracy; it has to be read to be believed, but in short, the author loves the TSA and believes all male opposition to it is due to feelings of sexual inadequacy. (He admitted himself puzzled by the opposition of women to the TSA.) And after you read it, you should by rights make fun of it and its author, Stewart Baker, at every opportunity. Me, I think it would be great to break into his calendar and arrange it so I'm scheduled to fly on every flight he is and pass a word or two to his TSA heroes to make sure his waiting time gets extended by several hours. (Well, it might take more than a word or two, after all, for if <i>verbum sat sapienti</i>, the average TSA agent would need <i>War and Peace</i>.)Snedcatnoreply@blogger.com