The NSA, LOVEINT, and Twitter

"LOVEINT"?  Seriously?  You guys suck.  Since every joke is a tiny revolution, Twitterers strike back with a hilarious hashtag, #NSAPickUpLines.

I also can't help re-posting Remy's satire:

 

"All Your Data Is Belong To Us"

I link to this Foreign Policy article on the NSA because the image is too pointedly amusing not to share.

Steyn on Politically Correct Big Brother

"The bozo leviathan sees everything ... and nothing." *Sigh.*   It also doesn't help that all this takes place in the middle of Scandal-a-palooza's apparently endless shenanigans.

Friday Fun Video: The NSA Slow Jam

Remy over at Reason.tv has long been in the habit of making hilarious musical political commentary (remember this and this?), and he just can't resist singing this slow jam:

"The Daily Show" Vs. the NSA

Jon Stewart is away, so John Oliver is sitting in, and he's just as pointedly humorous.  His last sentence is a zinger, all right:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Quote of the Day: Jay Leno on the NSA

Sometimes it takes a comedian to make a point:

I mean, what’s going on? The White House has looked into our phone records, checking our computers, monitoring our e-mails. When did the government suddenly become our psycho ex-girlfriend?

Taiwanese News Animators Vs. NSA Snooping

Quote of the Day: On the NSA Snooping Scandal

Indeed:

President Obama is now caught in a trap of his own making. By downplaying the threat and trying to create an atmosphere of peace and normality in the country, he has delegitimated the measures he believes that our safety requires. Having tried and failed to keep these secrets dark and hidden, he must now try to explain what many Americans will find inexplicable. If the terrorists are really on the run, and we can finally go back to a 9/10 state of mind, why are you assembling and wielding the most powerful and intrusive systems of surveillance ever conceived?

Dystopian Literature or Current Events?

Buzzfeed - yes, Buzzfeed, home of cute baby animals and celebrity gossip - wants to know if you can tell the difference between Orwell and Obama.

Fill In That Scandal-a-Palooza Wildcard Bracket, People

This scandal bracket was supposed to be a wry joke.  Well, nobody's laughing now as we know that we can definitely fill in that last wild card bracket with the news about the NSA and Verizon.  

People are furious, and they should be.  Don't give us that stupid argument that if we've done nothing wrong, then we've nothing to fear from government agencies snooping around.  Secret blanket surveillance is not OK.  This isn't even targeted.  This isn't about people suspected of wrongdoing.  The NSA's just indiscriminately scooping up everything on everybody.  Anyway, see this and this, which pithily snarks, "from the Verizon: home-to-nearly-100-million-terrorism-suspects! dept."

Oh, by the way, am I the only one starting to get a case of "scandal fatigue"?  Another day, another mess in the news ... Hey, government overreach?  Must be Thursday.

Also, Rand Paul.

UPDATE: But wait, there's more!