What If You Threw An “Opt-Out” And Nobody Came?

So for an entire week we’ve heard about this campaign to opt-out of the new enhanced scanner things at the airport because they can see your parts and stuff and well, the alternative is just as bad because they touch your parts. Or something.

So today was the day everyone was supposed to insist they wanted a stupid pat down. Listen, I can get groped whenever, by people that will make eye contact with me. So I don’t understand why groping by a stranger trumps walking into this booth thing so they can verify I’m not an underpants bomber is preferable, especially when it runs the risk of making your fellow passengers having to wait on you a little stabby.  But to each his own.

But with all the furor, apparently organizers forgot: Most travelers would rather just get on the stupid plane and go to where ever, and not have it blow up. So because of this, it appears this opt out thing is pretty much a dud.

Best Five Months of the Year (Not This Year, Necessarily, Just In General, But, Yes, It More or Less Applies To This Year, aka 2010)

1. October

2. November

3. June

4. January

5. September

Is Captain Comeback Ready For Another Comeback?

Hall-of-Fame quarterback Roger Staubach says he’d love to get out on the field tomorrow, when the Cowboys face the Saints in Arlington. “It’s not the throwing, but the hitting that would be a concern,” Staubach says. “It would be fun to get out there on Thanksgiving Day. I’d play for a quarter—if they’d agree not to hit me.”

These days, No. 12 is spending a lot of time gearing up for Super Bowl XLV, which will be played Feb. 6, 2011, at Cowboys Stadium. As chairman of the host committee, Staubach was instrumental in bringing the big game to North Texas. And he already has his eye on a repeat performance.

“We want to get 50 back in Dallas,” says Staubach of Super Bowl L, to be played in 2016. “Troy (Aikman) is my vice chair on this one; I’m getting him ready to take over for the next Super Bowl.”

Leading Off (11/24/10)

The saying goes like this: there’s no such thing as a slow news day; there are just slow news people. The idea being that there’s always news happening out there, somewhere. You just have to go out and find it. Well, this morning I scoured the internets. Believe me. But I couldn’t find any Dallas news worth bringing to you. Instead, here’s some stuff from people I follow on Twitter. That makes it kinda local.

1. Jane McGarry would like you to know that Google Street View caught a naked man crawling out of the trunk of a car.

2. Kidd Kraddick brings you a picture of a girl holding a turkey. If you listen to his show, maybe you know who the girl is and why she has cooked her bird early.

3. Shawn Marion reveals that he thought last night’s win over the Pistons was great and that he has already arrived safely in Oklahoma for tonight’s game against the Thunder.

4. And, finally, Mark Davis says he believes that Oswald acted alone.