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Today is Pungenday, day 17 in the season of Confusion, 3268.

I must thank mactavish for pointing me in the direction of Mark Morford's Morning Fix newsletter. I am reminded of the clip from the woman on the local news the other night who worried that it was terrorists who stole the keys of about half the school buses parked in the depot overnight.

**John Ashcroft Fondles Your Inbox**
Four in five apparently very gullible Americans would give up some freedoms to gain security and four in 10 worry terrorists will harm them or their family, a new Gallup poll shows, causing much cheering and champagne-cork popping in the John Ashcroft Civil Liberties Sodomization and Rampant Homophobia Lounge in Hell, which is only a short jog from the new Robert C. Fleming Jr. Sub-Sub-Basement and Utter Jackass Emporium, as they realized the incessant wave of ongoing disinformation, false terrorist warnings, and general sniveling alarmist fear tactics aimed at the US populace are working beautifully. About one-third of those polled favor making it easier for authorities to access private e-mail and phone conversations. More than 70 percent are in favor of requiring U.S. citizens to carry ID cards with fingerprints. 57 percent have pretty much given up hope and don't really care anymore that GW Bush has the intellectual acumen of a garage door, 37 percent actually believe Carrot Top is "sorta funny," and a very horrifying 19 percent actually think Celine Dion is charming and way talented.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2002/06/11/national0555EDT0492.DTL&nl=fix