Janet Napolitano wants us to know that, soon, we’ll be able to keep our shoes on at the airport.

Well, isn’t she nice for fixing this for us? Maybe the DHS could start actually doing something for a change.

“When we implemented that three-ounce liquids ban in the summer of 2006, did I think that would be a forever thing? No,” Bush homeland security adviser Fran Townsend told POLITICO recently. “It has to do with the complacency and laziness of the bureaucracy.”

See? Security theater folks. Taking our shoes off was in response to an actual threat. The three liquids ban was a response to no threat, yet it’s still somehow a threat while hiding explosives in your shoes is no longer a threat.