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Ask the pilot: Confiscating shampoo? Forcing crew members to remove their shoes? The absurdity that is airport "security" continues

It's been a while since we've done airport <a href="http://dir.salon.com/topics/security/">security.</a> Having devoted more than two dozen columns to the topic over the past few years, I try to keep my rants fewer and farther between. Of course, with the Transportation Security Administration being a source of limitless aggravation and befuddlement, one can only hold out for so long. Just when you think there's nothing left to say, the agency finds a way to outdo itself with yet another sparkling example of absurdity. <P>Reasonable or otherwise, pilots and flight attendants are required to pass through the same security checkpoints as passengers. They are subject to most of the same rules, but are granted the luxury of leaving their shoes on. <p>...</p><img src="http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/tech/~4/175626354" height="1" width="1"/>

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