In case you use AOL, MSN, or Yahoo, it may interest you to know that these Internet companies have just turned over your personal search-engine results to the Kremlin, um, I mean the United States government. Without a fight. Only Google has refused to comply, forcing the U.S. Department of Justice to file a motion in federal court to compel them to do so. While the Justice Department claims, publicly anyway, that it is not seeking identifying information on who entered the search strings, coming on the heels of the latest warrantless eavesdropping scandal and other privacy outrages over the years (Total Information Awareness, anyone?), this paints a chilling portrait of a government that distrusts you so much that it is preemptively building a hidden case against you.

Luckily, I have no secrets. All of the juicy details of my life over the past four years have been documented in this journal.

Those of you who have not noticed any juicy details over the past four years have hit upon a problem more horrifying than America’s transformation into a secret police state:

I AM BORING!

Update: I forgot to tell you that the government’s excuse is that they are trying to enforce a law that would make it mandatory for pornography web sites to not be accessible to children. While this is believable on its face—given the Ashcroft Justice Department’s obsession with banning legal pornography over catching, you know, terrorists who kill people—it is also believable that once the information is put to this use, if it is put to this use, it can be put to any other use they desire. More eerily, it is also setting a precedent for the clandestine seizing of records from private companies for the use of building secret cases against Americans.

Update 2: Yup. Still boring.