Request for Routine: Lily Tomlin, where are you?

I'd love to hear Ernestine's take on the NSA phone records story.

Maybe for our own protection we'll need to take her up on her original taunt:

"Why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string. We don't care. We don't have to. (snort) We're the Phone Company."

I remember when they taught me in school that one of the awful things about totalitarian governments like the Soviet Commies was that they spied routinely on their own citizens. That was then. This is now. Reach out and datamine someone.