Olympic icons all ears; Doc Brown demands NYTimes return his time-traveling Delorean.

Though it may not be apparent, those two fun-loving graphic icons of the Olympics, Wenlock and Mandeville (http://tinyurl.com/btf8poq ) are all ears, thanks to the all-purpose snooping authorization Britain's coalition government is proposing, which will allow every scrap of communication, verbal or written, to be monitored without any need for a warrant.  As a New York Times editorial noted disapprovingly this morning:

With London’s Olympics just months away, we recognize the need for vigilance against terrorist plots. But this legislation would go much too far.   (http://tinyurl.com/cxxkwbf )

This afternoon David Cameron responded that "We are of course loath to increase the power of the central government, and frankly, we had planned to outsource the whole project to Rupert Murdoch, but obviously, Rupert's bunch simply can't hack it when it comes to competent hacking."

"Gosh, Doc Brown, you mean the
Democratic president will do things
Dick Cheney could only dream of?"

And in related news, Doc Brown arrived at the New York Times office this afternoon to demand the return of his time-traveling Delorean.  "It's not in my garage," he said, "and when I read that editorial* I could tell those guys were out cruising in the aughts."

*which begins with the line "The George W. Bush team must be consumed with envy" and at no point suggests any knowledge of developments in the three years since Bush left office, including the Obama administration's zeal in the relentless prosecution/persecution of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, which even a Republican-appointed judge considered inappropriate.  http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/ex-nsa-official-gets-probation-in-leak-case