I'm in the "put it on the floor" or get an air mattress crown. With one exception. We did this exact thing when we were selling our condo a few years ago. No screws into the bookcase, since nobody was sleeping on it, but we had a 2nd bedroom that we'd used as an office. It had a large bookcase, but no bed. To…

@TTownTerrorist: Missing from his post: "that was a name given to me [last year] in HS by people like you"

@TTownTerrorist: Not the best reply I could come up with, more that I can't be bothered engaging intellectually with someone who chooses to identify himself with the moniker a 15-year old boy might find cool. The argument you make has been addressed ad nauseum in the several days that this discussion went on before…

@TTownTerrorist: Wow, I can tell how deeply sensitive you are to the horrors of mass murder by your Tulsa Terrorist handle. Keep it classy, man.

@wjp4bs: Interesting, thanks! I'll have to go read about the case. I believe much good work not just in policing, but in art, science and countless other areas, involves the seeking, recognition and use of patterns. The idea that we should hamstring our law enforcement to FORBID the use of patterns in identifying…

@zendetta: Well, since you find all my replies predictable, and I find all your replies devoid of insight, why don't we agree to disagree.

@zendetta: Your "domestic" qualification is cute since it excludes two other cases of US-bound aircraft being targeted (Reid and Abdulmutallab) as well as dozens of other international flights being targeted. And yes, TSA does have a role to play in aircraft that are inbound to the United States. If a passenger on…

@pvcrisp: My argument was not primarily about age. My argument was primarily about a profile. Which every sentient being recognizes but nobody wants to acknowledge (well, I want to acknowledge it). Your theory of checking everyone (alive or dead, nice touch ;-) would be nice in a world of unlimited resources. But…

@zendetta: Cognitive dissonance is the mental tension or confusion that comes from holding inconsistent viewpoints or opinions that cannot be reconciled. You, for example, seem well-informed enough to know that everyone who the TSA either has caught or should have caught in the last decade was a young, single, male,…

@zendetta: If I repeat the words TSA and AIRPORT 1000 times, will it help you people to understand the discussion?

@Necroscope: HAHAHAHHHH!!! +1000

@pvcrisp: And you sir, appear to be illiterate. We're talking here about scanning elderly grandmothers at US airports and you're claiming that because you can find two stories of elderly Muslim men killing themselves in Afghanistan that it makes my grandmother a suspect?

@m9105826: Talk to me about it when it happens. And btw, they're already using children as suicide bombers in Iraq and against Israel. But making it HARDER for your enemies to attack you is still a good thing.

@czadd: Let me just make one minor point, since the rest of your post about devoting our security dollars to "garnering better relationships with the non-extremists" is not something I can really address in this space.

@omnichad: you said this:

@pvcrisp: Wow, that may be the most ignorant thing I've ever heard. You think most 95 year old women would commit mass murder to leave a better inheritance to their grandchildren. I'm am SOOOO glad I'm not in your family. :-)

@icemanforever: Yeah, I saw that Johnny Depp movie as well. It was called Nick of Time. It was pretty good.

@theodicey: Hmmmm . . . was he Jamaican, British and Protestant? Jamaican, British and Jewish? Jamaican, British and Hindu? I can't recall . . . can you?

@eien: I know, it's so confusing, because I thought self-esteem promotion in the Muslim world was the responsibility of NASA, I didn't realize it was also the responsibility of the TSA:

@omnichad: So then you DO think that your grandmother could be coaxed to commit mass murder? Wow, does she know how you feel about her?