James Poulos takes on the TSA:
My problem with what's unfolding at our nation's airports runs a lot deeper than the misfortune of genital encroachment.
My problem is that we're racing down an inherently absurd road. Set aside for a moment the dismaying way in which every new advance in security measures involves a retreat for civil liberties and traditional definitons of decency. Our logic of escalation appears to mean that every new solution actually creates a new and dramatically worse problem one which calls, of course, for dramatically more invasive and comprehensive countermeasures.
Where does it end? As a matter of logic, it ends with a free people dehumanizing themselves in a way their own enemies cannot quite manage to do. Fortunately, we are not prisoners of logic. But the awful thing about terrorism is that it very well might keep us prisoner to fear.
Bruce Schneier's analysis is also worth reading, as always.