there, there. government will make it better

found on failblog

so, with the NSA around you're never truly alone? hmm, that gives me some ideas.

gee, are you a heavy breather, too?

found on comixed

creepy, creepy, mr. president. mrs. obama must be jealous with all the attention your lavishing on the rest of us.

no consolation in "they're doing it too"

found on memebase

gee, you think maybe there's some political commentary one could make about technology design choices? are our entertainment and technology companies treating us as much as adversaries as the government is?

mass spying makes you snuggly and secure

in all likelihood the embed won't work, but just in case here's snuggly the security bear talking about the government spying on it's citizens. go watch the original if it doesn't load here, it's really worth it.

[update: switched over to the youtube version which was recently uploaded so the embed should work now]

@goremy takes on spygate

personally, i don't think it's quite as catchy as the one about grandma being indefinitely detained, but it's still pretty good. thanks @goremy

that's not all he'd tap

found on memebase

well, i suppose it's time we graduated from just vilifying obama in memes and started looking at the other people involved (like general keith alexander, director of the NSA)

dark side of the presidency

from here (source image)

if you're going to raise the spectre of 100 percent security, you better not be planning to use that as a motivator to justify your actions.

overly attached government

tweeted by @AmberBaldet

thanks to @AmberBaldet for bringing us another overly attached girlfriend take on the NSA spying controversy. considering the video earlier, i'm sure Laina would approve.

i guess we should have known

found on comixed

in security, the concept of "too good to be true" comes up pretty regularly. i suppose maybe we should have realized that happens in politics too.

overly attached uncle sam

it seems even the overly attached girlfriend is getting in on the political commentary action with this overly attached uncle same video. who knew uncle sam could be so creepy (creepy uncle sam).