There's two things to say here. First, it's great that the guy is out of circulation. He's no soldier, he's a terrorist. And I think that he might be one of the first terrorist even thinly related to 9/11 to finally be convicted and put in jail. The judge made a great statement.

Let's go back in the History Machine and look at Alternative History. Every since this guy tried to blow up his shoe anyone who travels has to take off their shoes. A couple of months ago I was asked to take off my shoes because they "met the profile." I asked the TSA person why I should take them off since I'd worn them through the hoop for months. After getting that reply I asked, politely, "What profile?" The TSA person and I looked at each other with a knowing look, becaues I had figured out the answer in my head already, and we both replied to each other at the same time, "They're shoes..." We both got a chuckle

OK, now let's look at the mechanism here. The guy tried to blow up his shoes. What if he had tried to blow up his underwear? What if it was a woman and she tried to blow up her bra? Whenever I see shoes coming off I wonder how different it might be if we all had to have our undies inspected. When I look around the lines I imagine the people standing in line, down to their undies. Most of the time that's a pleasant site to imagine.

Now, back to reality :0