Let's be honest, we wouldn't be talking about mass data collection if not for him

Oh, wait, is that sarcasm? Because I see you said he earned the Nobel Peace Prize...

Rather than being publicly known and debated maybe now it will be done by some loose "interpretation" of laws regarding national security.

If we've learned anything about our recent past, it's that this isn't dead, they'll just keep it alive in secret until another Snowden comes along. It's all a circle that the government plays with its citizens.

And a brick in its mouth. With a garlic rosary. After setting it on fire. And sacrificing several good pipes and a bottle of $500 rum to Eshu-elegba to make sure it doesn't come back.

Maybe a priest should come and exorcise it, just to be on the safe side.

But the people who brought that on us are still in power.

Since I take anti-depressants and shouldn't drink (and I don't -- much), I celebrate with sarcasm and irony.

Apologies to the scotts out there, who are all totally innocent! I say that from my heart.

Our phrase comes from the old English word "scot", meaning a form of tax. If you got away without paying the scot, you were evading a burden you should have borne.

So the phrase "scot-free" has nothing to do with people named Scott or with people from Scotland.

Isn't he asking for an updated authorization?

That was bulk NSA collection and retention of metadata. It's the warrantless mass profiling and targeting that's carried out by other agencies. What's your terrorist quotient?