[attrition] rant: I read the news today, oh boy.

[lyger]

http://www.pogowasright.org/blogs/dissent/?p=210

(Dateline Washington , D.C., January 6, 2031)

The first session of the 122nd Congress opened today, with Senate leaders 
vowing that this would be the year that they would pass the Leahy-Specter 
Memorial Data Protection and Mandatory Breach Notification Act. Some 
Beltway insiders had suggested that previous failures to enact the 
legislation were due to the unpronouncabilty of "LSMDPMBNA," but others 
had suggested that until now, Congress's priority had been to debate how 
we landed up in wars with Iran, Korea, and Canada without Congress ever 
authorizing any of those wars.

Over the holidays, members of Congress were shocked to read that 
unencrypted data on a laptop computer lost by a Kaiser Impermanente 
employee had been found and leaked to the media. The data revealed how 
Representative Kale Jackson.s daughter had had 4 elective abortions before 
the age of 15, how Senator Reid Smither's son had undergone inpatient 
treatment for early-onset Huntington's Chorea and narcotic abuse, and how 
Representative JoAnne B. Lane was currently under psychiatric treatment 
for depression following her recent divorce.

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