Googling Past the Graveyard

[rodeodance]

sorry for only the preview--but i can not find it at the moment. Looks interesting though.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/opinion/21dowd.html&OQ=thQ26emcQ3Dth&OP=4eb941f6Q2FQ7B97!Q7BzyFQ7DQ7DzQ7BqUUbQ7BUEQ7BqEQ7BQ7DQ5EQ24vQ24Q7DvQ7BqE@Q7D9@0iznZ
Googling Past the Graveyard

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: January 21, 2006

The White House has always seemed less compelled to capture Osama than to use him as a pretext for invading Iraq and as a political selling point.

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[kurth]

1. She calls Dickhead the Vice Voyeur

[Rich Hunt]

2. interesting headline...

...I must say.

[depakid]

3. obligatory 4 paragraphs

...what I'm Googling, of course, is Dick Cheney. I have to constantly monitor how Vice Voyeur is pushing the federal government to constantly monitor millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls, e-mail notes and Internet searches.

If you want to know why the Grim Peeper is willing to turn this country into a police state to take his version of democracy to other countries, just do a Google search under ''antiterrorism,'' ''government snooping,'' ''overreaching'' and ''fruitcake.''

It was hard to know which story yesterday was scarier: Osama bin Laden, still alive and taunting the U.S., or the Justice Department's trying to force Google to turn over a suspiciously broad array of information on millions of users' searches and Web addresses, supposedly to investigate online crime involving pornography.

The Internet is full of vile diversions, but prying without justification is just as vile. Innocent Americans -- not just lonely guys in their boxers -- could be swept up in the fishnet dragnet. Who decides what is porn? Will those who Google to find out-of-print copies of Lynne Cheney's juicy, cheesy lesbian Old West novel, ''Sisters,'' be suspect? (The cheapest copy at Alibris.com is $195.)