The TSA – those wonderful people who only seem to produce narrow-visioned responses to terrorist threats – bring us yet another set of rules to fly by. This time their sole focus is on preventing bombings during approach and/or landing. Don’t you just love how they only seek to prevent the exact thing that’s been most recently attempted? Remember, these are the same folks who now force us to take off our shoes because some bozo attempted a shoe bomb. Thank god it wasn’t in his underwear.

In their infinite (*cough* knee-jerk) wisdom they’ve decided to “let pilots and airlines determine whether in-flight entertainment systems that show a plane’s location should be turned off to avoid a security risk” because as we all know, terrorists are too stupid to look out the window. Next they’ll stop announcing that they’re starting their initial descent and offering estimates of how soon the plane will be landing. And if that doesn’t work, they can always glue the window shades down, you know, in an attempt to avoid a security risk.

Since there’s no way to stop someone from hearing the landing gear going down or looking out the window, or using their watch for that matter to estimate location, perhaps the TSA should implement mandatory anesthesia.