re: #50 Killgore Trout

I find it interesting that the lefties freaked out about NSA. After years of drone strikes they seemed relatively unbothered. Bradley Manning had little support outside of the far fringe and he’s a much more sympathetic character than Snowden. I don’t get why all this happens now. At least conservatives waited until bush was out of office to throw him under the bus. Progressives are jumping the gun here.

My guess is that it is a combination of bright shiny object + pent up frustration at the glacial pace of political progress.

Not that that makes any of this NSA nonsense correct, of course.