Currrent events

I've tried to follow the debate over Scottish independence, honestly I have. But I can't really work up enough enthusiasm to care much one way or the other. But I found this interesting:

I did a post this morning confessing to a certain ambivalence about leaks and leakers. Then on the way back from lunch, I heard Rush Limbaugh also express mixed feelings. He had a different spin, though:

An unprecedented amount of data collected on average, ordinary, every day Americans and everybody else.  And as I say, it matters who the people are who are collecting the data.