One of the problems with having a political opinion that defies common logic is that you inevitably end up in conversations with people who have political opinions that defy all logic: the kind of people who still care about who shot Kennedy, who think the AIDS epidemic is a government plot to drain funds from education to pay for genetic research, who wear tin-foil on their heads to keep out laser beams sent from an invisible satellite to read their minds ...

... ah, the irony.

But I worry it's contagious. I mean, "normal" people smile politely and nod along - at least until we can find a reason to walk away or think of an excuse to accidentally punch them in the throat - as they tell us that the CIA has planted hidden cameras in motel room television sets. We laugh it off. Then, some time later, we see something like this, and it starts to make sense in a way that makes you wished it didn't.

File 67119-AB-997D: subject 58143G at Comfort Inn

So maybe the theory holds true. Can you come up with a better rationalization? I hardly think that "pale white man, small blue panties" is a work of abstract art, and I tend to doubt his significant other thought that a snapshot of "the Lancelot pose" would be something s/he could keep on the desk at work (though the three-quarter really is the least unflattering angle for underdeveloped men with small erections). And while it makes me rather uneasy to think that soulless men in blue suits are watching, it makes me even more uneasy to think that I could think that was even remotely possible.

... but then, you never know.