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The U.S. government is developing methods for data-mining massive amounts of on-line information, including blogs, for signs of terrorist activity.  I fully expect that the next time I try to get on an airplane, my name will appear on some kind of list that requires me to be subjected to an intensive pre-boarding search that includes the complete disassembly of my ventilator and the removal of my tracheotomy tube to ensure that I'm not carrying any miniature explosives or biological agents.  I wonder if the FBI has a file started on me yet.  Man, that would be so cool if I did.  I could request a copy of it and take it with me to assorted progressive rallies and try to impress women by showing it to them. 

 

I have to be at a 7:30 meeting tomorrow morning.  I'm debating whether I should just sleep in my chair tonight with my clothes on.  Or maybe I should just pour enormous quantities of coffee, Mountain Dew, and Red Bull down my g-tube and simply stay awake until I slip into a coma sometime tomorrow afternoon at my office.