@tundraboy: You don't get the irony of tens of millions of people having their privacy violated by agencies with a multi-billion dollar annual budgets just to have attempted attacks averted out of sheer luck, in spite of those agencies' incompetence?

When I fly on Thursday I'm going to ask the TSA official to turn off the lights while groping me. Because I like to have the lights off when SOMEONE IS DOING SEX TO ME!

BP did play ads during the World Cup. I caught one during the U.S. v Slovenia match while I watched it at an Irish pub in Mid-City New Orleans. It featured that black guy from Mississippi who they put in charge to hide Tony Hayward's shameful face. The only thing that got booed worse than that BP ad that day was…