The Problem With Penguins

Who says the TSA isn't profiling potential problem passengers?   The Thousands Standing Around  as theater of the absurd:   Penguins required to walk through scanners in Denver airport.   Yep.  Really. I guess the Thousands Standing Around crew at Denver feared the penguins might've hijacked the plane or something ("Book two to Bogota!")... (tip from a reader of Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor)   Oh, and apparently, one TSA goon in San Jose, CA, thinks that the Thousands Standing Around ban on more than 2 matchbooks means any kind of book. (This is the only report I know of.  But it certainly fits the profile for Thousands Standing Around employees... ::heh::)   They seem get these guys by weeding out anyone with an IQ over 80.  And the normative curve for Thousands Standing Around goons seems (by evidence of reported behavior) to cluster around the average intelligence of yeast.   But they are only doing their duty (as the stupid man claims whenever he finally understands that what he is doing is stupid... ).