Dear Terrorists,

Fuck you. No really, fuck you. And I don't mean because of the whole "trying to blow people up bit" because that's really wrong and you people really need to go out more. Maybe get laid even. No, I'm talking about how you keep up on coming up with sneakier ways of attempting to blow us up on airplanes, things because of you are totally going to make flying that much worse.

Like this latest stung, liquid explosives. Now, thanks to you, we won't be able to get on a plane with a bottle of water or even bring toothpaste or deodorant or juice or anything like that. We already have to take our damn shoes off everytime we go through security which is like totally the dumbest thing ever, but now we have to have some security dude go through our toiletries to confiscate shaving cream and lipstick.

Thanks a fucking lot.

If you ever contemplate using iPods as an explosive, thus ensuring the banning of iPods on airplanes I will personally come to your house and beat the living shit out of you myself.

Of course, this would all be moot if someobody would just be courageous enough to say something along the lines of "shit happens, there's nothing we can really do about stuff like this and if somebody really wanted to blow up a plane, there's nothing we can do to stop them. So, we could either make you all come onto airplanes in nothing but PJs to ensure your safety, you could do that, or you could just accept the fact that the percentages of something happening are infitesimal and while we'll do our best to secure you, you can't let the terrorists get to you by making us throw your lipstick away before boarding a plane.

Which, of course, would never happen.

Speaking of which, I was watching CNN a few weeks ago and Wolf Blitzer was in Tel Aviv reporting on how Israelis were handling the latest crisis and threats of rockets coming down upon them. As Wolf talked about all the threats and potential of rocket attacks, he intercut it with shots of Israelis going about their business as if nothing was going on-- going to the beach, shopping, eating out at cafes. So Wolf goes out there and interviews all these Israelis about how they're getting on with all of this and every Israeli he talked just pretty much shrugged their shoulders and said something along the lines of "what are you going to do about it? You can't let stuff like this scare you." And every time Wolf heard this, he'd pretty much say with every dint of incredulous "but you could be hit by rockets. WHY AREN'T YOU SCARED!!!!!??????' To which the Israeli would then repeat the same thing and say "what are you going to do about i?" This only made Wolf even more incredulous as he went around and around wondering what the hell is wrong with these people.