News That Isn't News: NSA Collects Domestic Phone Call Data

Oh, the outrage! Oh, the scandal! Oh, the horror! Everyone is up in arms about USA Today's report that the NSA has been compiling a database of domestic phone records. Oh, come on, get serious people. Anyone who doesn't believe this has been going on for awhile has their head in the sand and is blissfully ignorant. Pull your hair, gnash your teeth, howl at the moon. It happens. It has been happening for awhile, and bogus and spin-spun legal distinctions notwithstanding, there's not a whole heckuva lot we can do about it.