I saw the CNN blare for Edwards Snowden is pretty curious and interesting.  “From High School Drop-out to Security Clearance”.

So this is where we land for short-cut insult to the man.  It’s going to be de rigueur for pundits in arguing against him to slide that phrase in — ad hominem style.   (To be honest, I would have much prefer if they go with “Damned Bradley Manning wannabes.“)  I suppose it would tag us better over to the realm of indicting the government for lax standards — the man somehow wormed his way in with but some damned community college computer classes and Army career.

Or maybe we take this bit of the story and go with the idea that evaded indoctrination into the National Surveillance State?  (Damned John Taylor Gatto wannabe… or, something?)

Whatever the case, the problem with this focus …

… You know, Peter Jennings was a high school drop out?…

… beyond the messenger becoming the message, is that my guess is that public polling would show the demographic most congenial to “frying the guy” would be your high school diploma-less.
May be.

As we go into the debates on tapering down the line about the encroachments into “Total Information Awareness” — I kinda like this comment:

Frank Church weeps.

We can make it the new slogan for all Administrative civil libertarian concerns.  “Frank Church weeps”.  “Frank Church is rolling in his grave.”  Just to find out if anyone knows what the heck you are talking about.

Then there’s…

For a putative martyr, Snowden’s had a pretty cushy existence, it seems, and yeah, there’s pretty clearly a narcissism problem when someone in his 20s decides to give Barack Obama a chance to “keep his promises” before leaking what he knew about PRISM.

Wait.  Narcissist.  I think the entire generation has already been indicted for that, and from there we do have further debates on the nature of the millennials and what the legacy of their vast Narcissism is going to be.  Apparently it’s this.  Far out and groovy.

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