So the L.A. Times is full of wonderful news today, including a story that travelers are going to have to start opening their luggage for inspectors at the airport. The president of the Air Travelers Association says that while people may not want strangers rummaging through their luggage, "they're just going to have to grin and bear it."

Excuse me? Grin and bear it? I'm definitely not grinning, and I will bear nothing and they will like it. As a taxpayer, I'm already shelling out a huge chunk of my paycheck to the same government who purchased all these fancy-shmancy X-ray machines (and coming soon, CT machines as well) that scan my luggage, and the same government that pays the salaries of all those workers running those machines.

What's that? The government says that the people manning the scanning machines don't even have to have a high school diploma? You mean that these machines are actually supposed to work but the damned morons running it are letting things slip by so now I have to shell out more money out of my paycheck to pay the Homeland Security Department so they can hire people to go through my clothes and personal belongings too? You've got to be kidding me! And this is the same government that's telling me to go out and spend money to haul the country out of recession, but I can't do that unless I'm bringing home enough out of my paycheck without the government grabbing it all!

All I can say is, I knew that President Moron was going to run this country into the ground. I just hoped it wouldn't have affected me personally, but once again, my optimism is crushed by the reality of the Peter Principle, which states that people will rise to the highest level of their incompetence. Case in point.