The War on Shampoo

Way back when, during all the hoopla about liquid explosives on UK-US flights I commented,

This all strikes me as slightly bizarre and I can't help recalling earlier threats from other terrifying tools in the terrorist arsenal such as ricin and red mercury. I wouldn't be surprised if this supposed threat is forgotten about pretty quickly, who now remembers the tanks patrolling Heathrow? Then again, maybe I'm just being a cynical whatnot and this time it's for real... the government have cried "wolf" so many times people don't know whether to believe them or toss them the finger.

It looks increasingly like my cynicism wasn't misplaced. Perhaps it really is time to stop believing anything and everything they say.