Except for providing an endless amount of humor for late-night monologs, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is seeming more useless every day. The Air Marshal program has had major problems from its inception and the idiocy of many airport passenger screeners is almost legendary. As part of the Homeland Security bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush, TSA (1) was ordered to implement an affirmative program to arm any and all passenger airliner pilots wishing to participate in the program. There were to be no limits on participation. That is, each pilot of a passenger airliner...
