it's cool that there's been a burst of privacy activism with regard to tsa screenings. you would expect me to be outraged. i saw penn gilette and ron paul, among others, squawking about it on the tube yesterday. but actually? as an actual person actually getting on a plane it doesn't bother me worse than anything else. i don't care whether these people have pictures of what i look like beneath my clothes: they can knock themselves out, and the frisking just isn't going to annoy me particularly. it's funny but privacy isn't my screeching libertarian motto, i think perhaps because i was more or less raised in a culture of confession: my high school had group therapy but no actual classes, e.g., and there's been shitload of therapy and twelve-step meetings since then, though i'm not necessarily in these modes now. my writing has at least sometimes been confessional. in my heart i almost think of privacy as a problem. so my opposition is kind of half-hearted. also i must say that if you are a member of a species that can develop and deploy the crotch bomb, you deserve to have your junk squoze.