Thursday Miscellany!

• As the White House and Iran make progress towards a deal (2), the Likudniks in Israel are freaking the fuck out.


• The British Intelligence apparatus, responding to the Snowden leaks, is asking us to please accept the police state for the sake of the children. Meanwhile, Al Gore says the Snowden leaks reveal NSA "crimes against the Constitution." File that one away for later, kids.


• The FBI spied on Antiwar.com for six years. More here and here. All this was based on an FBI fuck-up, treating a complaint as a threat. Think you're safe from having your rights violated just because you're innocent? Guess again, kids.


• It's starting to dawn on the GOP that nominating a theoconservative firebrand for the Virginia gubernatorial race might have been a really shitty idea. I expect them to learn from this only insofar as the Tea Party morons will allow them.


• If you're like me and have an Android, you know that they often come with a lot of annoying "free" crap, care of the vendor or manufacturer. You can delete all that stuff and make your phone faster and more secure.