Why does it take putting a bill through Congress to REMOVE people from the list???

I bet you can be added without the fuss.

Anecdote time:

A friend of mine was flying somewhere for some music thing. She is a violinist, and was of course carrying it on. At the security line when the instrument was on its way through the machine, ONE OF THE TSA PEOPLE said, "That's not a machine gun, is it?"

So yeah, I guess they can make jokes but we can't.

I work at the mall where this happened. (Yes Really.) The window of my department looked right out on the one that got 2nd place. This was the kid who attempted to use a broken motor to disprove evolution. My boss (an earnest Wiccan) went out to see what the whole thing was. That exhibit in particular caused him to read a book on Intelligent Design (Flock of Dodos I think...) and our whole department was shuddering the whole weekend.

I work in a bookstore which happens to have a coffee shop in the center. We don't allow people to use the electrical outlets for a liability reason: if there's a power surge and someone's laptop is mangled, the company doesn't want to be responsible. Makes sense from a corporate law point of view. Then again, I'm not a litigious kind of person and I probably wouldn't sue a company if that worst-case scenario happened to me.