Tired of jumping through hoops for pretend security

I fly a lot. I have flown a lot since I began book tours. In October of 2001, on my first American book tour, I was searched on every flight I took. On one flight, I was searched three times (one of those times involving my actually being taken off the plane). I did my best to be a good sport about this--I was from New York City, after all. I figured out, when I learned every other writer who flew that autumn was also being searched, that it was the one-way ticketing that sent up the red...