Well, feel free to suggest some more respectable conservative commentators. I do disagree with him more than I agree, but I don't viscerally hate him the way I do most of the others. I thought his switch on Iraq was about realizing the WMD threat was phony, not because the war was going badly, but I admit I haven't researched it. But I think he deserves at least a little credit for publicly changing his stand when very few others have.

About the baggage screener thing, I still don't understand why it would necessarily undermine travelers' confidence. But I guess it's already shaky enough as it is.