No liquids carried on board, except......

I've been on eleven airplane flights since the Aug. 10 changes in what's permitted on board.

All of us who fly a lot know that the TSA's job is providing the illusion of security, but this whole charade is wearing a little thin.

Toothpaste, babies' gel-filled teethers and sealed bottles of water are absolutely no threat to the airplane passenger, but (for the sake of argument) let's allow the TSA to continue their idiotic ban on such things at the security checkpoints.

Why are such things when purchased in the "sterile area" still taboo?

It's interesting to note that it's now perfectly fine to buy liquor, perfume and (liquid) makeup in Duty Free Shops at airports and have one's purchases delivered on the jetway at the airplane door.

Logic would say that it would be perfectly fine to have (at the very least) bottles of water delivered planeside, too! But I guess that the bottled water folks don't have as much political clout as the Duty Free Shop owners......