MadCatTLX: *applauds* Bravo. I would have said that he was raping the dead horse, but your analogy works much better. Thanks for that.
To get back to the topic: I beg to differ, but then, if it were up to me, the whole damn Patriot Act would be ripped out of the law books, used as TP, and then thrown out with the rest of the garbage.