I’m too tired to wade into or care about all of this, but I love this part:

Under Sections 126, 128, 129, 321 and 322 of the Patriot Act, the government can search credit records, library records and homes of suspected terrorists or, as the Bush administration says, “enemy combatants” without obtaining a warrant. Someone someday is going to check your library records, people, so I suggest you be careful. [Emphasis mine]

Me: Let’s just stipulate that all of this is true, why do people think that their library records constitute the holy of holies of privacy? Personally, I’d be much more bummed if the state searched my home or my credit card purchases than my library transactions.

What is so sacred about libraries? What, aside from access to internet porn, is so sensitive that critics of the Patriot Act single out libraries above all other things? Seriously, what’s the worst case scenario? I mean even if you took out the most radically subversive tracts in history, no one would care. And for most of us it’d be funny, not scary. Dear God! The G-Men know I’m reading back issues of Cracked and Omni!

UPDATE: WOOPS! I didn’t include the link. Here it is. Sorry about that.