As I mentioned yesterday [2], Thanksgiving week at Denver International Airport may include some humiliation, pat downs, and even quiet, civic-minded protests. But on Monday, at least a few travelers at DIA "resigned" to controversial full-body scans and/or enhanced security pat downs in the name of safer skies. "There was nothing intrusive at all," Kathaleen Quinlan of San Diego told The Associated Press [3] as she passed through DIA. Still, National Opt-Out Day [4] is tomorrow, and the protest against the new measures, which are seen by some as demeaning, could cause major delays.

Leave it to a Coloradan to jump into the fray with something so crazy it just might work. Jeff Buske of Larkspur is selling tungsten-lined underwear with strategically placed fibers that repel X-rays away from crotches. "You shouldn't have to be digitally strip-searched or doused with radiation to visit your grandmother," Buske, a 52-year-old electrical engineer, tells the Los Angeles Times [5] from New Jersey, where he's trying to find a manufacturer to help handle skyrocketing demand for his obscuring undies.

While Buske's Rocky Flats Gear company seems like a great idea (Westword [6] has pics and video), New York magazine [7] has a field day with "what if" scenarios, including one in which the "tacky" underwear, decorated with a fig leaf, ruin a date that's otherwise going well. Another potential problem: What if "you go through the body-scanning process, and instead of seeing the vaguely transparent outline of your junk, a TSA employee sees a strange, unrecognizable opaque shape in your underpants? You think they're not going to pull you aside to peek inside your undies after that?"