Quote of the day - Peg Noonan

I don't think most of us get extra screening [at airports] because they think we are terrorists. I think we get it because they know we're not. They screen people who are not terrorists because it helps them pretend they are protecting us, in the same way doctors in the middle ages used to wear tall hats: because they couldn't cure you. It's all show.

Peg Noonan