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So this morning I'm rushing through Circuit City doing Christmas shopping and while I'm passing the TVs I hear the president of some country somewhere saying how for the last three years he ordered wiretaps of his citizens without court warrants and I'm thinking Jeez I'm sure glad I don't live there but I didn't pay much attention because I still had gifts to buy and who cares anyway as long as no one's wiretapping me, right?

But then I was like, wait — I know that voice. I stopped and looked at the wall of TVs and sure enough President Bush was on every one of them.

The president of the United States can't order wiretaps without a court order, can he? I wondered as I rushed off to pick up an iPod and some Game Boys and then I realized — Well, I guess he can, sure. He's not going to do anything illegal. I mean, hello, he's not stupid, right?

But then I'm driving home and listening to the radio and now I'm not so sure. Russ Feingold said that Bush's remarks were breathtaking in how extreme they were. Then he said:

"He's trying to claim somehow that the authorization for the Afghanistan attack after 9/11 permitted this, and that's just absurd. There's not a single senator or member of Congress who thought we were authorizing wiretaps...If he needs a wiretap, the authority is already there — the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act."

Well whatever I just don't know and in any case if he did bend the rules a little he only did it for our own good and like I said before, no one's wiretapping me, right?

And besides if it was something really bad, the media would let us know.

Oh well gotta run.