Awesome. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to block funding for the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness project. It’s not dead yet the project is only being financially blocked until the Pentagon “explains the program and assesses its impact on civil liberties” but it’s nice to know that at least some people in Washington are standing up against this post-9/11 civil liberties bonfire.
Related joke: the Total Information Awareness project was originally known as the Total Knowledge Awareness project, until someone pointed out that the President kept referring to it excitedly as the T N’ A project. Ba-doom-boom. Thank you, thank you, I’m here all week. The 7 o’clock show is completely different from the 9 o’clock show.