So what bothers me more than the domestic spying scandal? More than the wanton flouting of the law? More than the use of private telecommunications infrastructure to conduct warrantless surveillance? More than the ethnic and religous profiling? More than the use of surveilance technologies very similar to those whose use has already been determined by the Supreme Court to constitute an illegal search? More than the accusation that the press is traitorous when the New York Times, et.al. seem to have bent over backwards to protect the adminitration's criminal secrets? What bothers me more than those? The apologists.

Norman Mailer says that humanity naturally moves toward facism.
Maybe that explains the reactions of those who remain sanguine in the face of what may be the most real and most serious threat to our way of life.