You know what kind of a news day it is going to be for America when the top “picks” are : “boy hit by ball at Sox game,”  “outrage over bear’s shooting,” “man gave buttocks enhancing injections,” and the usual “garnish” of NASA filler, which is a hopeful attempt to wake up anyone who has not fallen asleep yet.

On the bright side I have stumbled upon a blog called Where’s the Outrage, which has an interesting post about a surveillance bill which the house passed:

“Ending a year-long battle with President Bush, the House approved, 293 to 129, a re-write of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that extends the government’s ability to eavesdrop on espionage and terrorism suspects while providing a legal escape hatch for AT&T, Verizon Communications and other telecommunication firms. The companies face more than 40 lawsuits that allege they violated customers’ privacy rights by helping the government conduct a warrantless spying program after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks” (qt. from the Washington Post)

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