It's Safe to Brush Your Teeth in the Air Again

Good news for those of you planning on doing any air travel in the near future: starting tomorrow, the feds are finally easing their ban on carrying liquids and gels onto planes and returning to what the head of the TSA calls the "common sense" approach. That's good to hear - we thought they'd thrown common sense out the window ages ago. Anyway, you can now once again have most liquids or gels in your carry-on luggage - as long as they're all in 3-ounce size or smaller containers, and you can fit them all into one quart-size clear plastic bag. So, we can have liquids and gels, as long as they're in amounts that are essentially useless to us. Great. Is this called rule catch-22, or what?

You can also once again carry things like a cup of coffee onto the plane, as long as they were purchased inside the security checkpoint. We find it amusing that food - like, perhaps, a large hoagie, in which you could easily hide lots of interesting things - was never banned from being carried on planes. But we almost don't want to mention it, for fear of giving the TSA ideas, and deflecting them from their path back towards common sense...

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