after massive cattle calls in Paris and Houston. I am now officially collapsing from jet lag.

Man, the more money is lavished on those immigration apparats, the worse they get. And the security scanning people — why do they have plastic gray dishwashing buckets?
Why do little old ladies have to lift their carryons four feet up onto a track?
Why are the scanning machines, which are seen by millions, uglier than refrigerators?
And why does the TSA have the world’s dorkiest uniforms, and why are so many of their personnel grotesquely obese?
(Via Beyond the Beyond.)

Those are all perfectly valid questions. Why indeed?