TSA Views Pie as Security Threat

What would be do without the Transportation Security Agency to kick around? Laugh at FEMA? No that would be cruel, because FEMA deals with real crises (or is supposed to), while the TSA seems to have been created only to annoy travelers. Consider the situation Jessica Bruder found herself in when flying out of Portland, OR. " She wrote in a piece called "At airport screening pie in the sky might be overly optimistic" in the San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote: "I already knew my baking was hazardous. I'm good at burning crusts, mangling fillings and setting off smoke detectors. But I never thought of it as a threat. At least not in the national security sense."

Her tale went on to describe her exchanges with the TSA screener, "If my pie made the no-fly list, my boyfriend and I would arrive in Illinois empty-handed. This was my first visit to his family. We had no other offerings for the Thanksgiving table. And what would we tell them, anyway? 'The TSA ate my pie?'"

As bone-headed as agents have veen since 9/11, they're getting worse, but this one takes the cake -- or should I say, pie.