You're Just Now Catching On? Airport Security Is Making Americans Less Safe | Businessweek

Charles Kenny in Bloomberg Businessweek:

But what makes the experience of air travel truly abominable is the government agency ostensibly designed to ease anxieties about getting on planes: the Transportation Security Administration. Far from making travel safer, the U.S.’s approach to airport security is putting the lives of even more people at risk.

Where have I heard that before? Oh… right. Here. As in, here on this blog::

I’d have to venture a guess that even if we let people bring anything onboard an airplane, air travel would still be safer than the drive from home to the airport. 43,443 people were killed in 2005 while driving their cars. That’s over 200 Boeing 737’s full of people.

Six years ago.