The TSA is rolling out its latest tool in the ongoing effort to make airport security more time consuming and increasingly pervy: Scanners that see through clothing. Hmm. Sounds suspiciously like those old X-Ray Spex that used to be advertised in the back of Richie Rich comics, along with onion-flavored prank gum and sea monkeys.

Will those noble souls who operate the scanners be able to see their subject's junk? In a word, yes. But, the TSA cautions in a press release, the "passengers face will be blurred." Phew. All of this raises the inevitable question of whether there will now be a rash of "hotness profiling" at airports across this great nation.

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