So now, on top of all the snooping and spying and wiretapping and data mining, Bush's two Supreme Court appointees have done a little activist judgin', overturning a centuries-old precedent that cops can't burst into your home without knocking. Isn't this the sort of thing that libertarian types have, you know, historically opposed? Don't tread on me, and all that? Ah, but you've got nothing to worry about if you've done nothing wrong. Life's just that simple! Yay.

And yes, a bill quietly moving through the House would make it a felony for police officers from different jurisdictions to share info about lawbreaking gun dealers. Just more of the usual creepy stuff happening beneath most Americans' radars, while Zarqawi and immigration and flag burning dominate our headlines.

Normally I like to take my cartoons a little higher off the ground than this one, but sometimes it feels like a direct explanation is best. Let me just reiterate that Alito and Roberts will take this country in a freaky direction, and anyone who professes surprise at their extremism (as the Washington Post did in a recent house editorial) is either feigning "balance" or is a clinical bonehead.