Tweet of the Day, Verizon Doesn’t Need This Kind Of Brand Identification edition.

Ladies and gentlemen, Governor Rick Perry:

Ouch.

Mark Kirk backhands Eric Holder over the executive branch’s spying on Congress.

Short version: Eric Holder got to be testifying before the Senate on a day where the big news was that the NSA was having Verizon pull its phone logs and hand them over to the federal government.  Mark Kirk had an opportunity to ask questions.

Hi-jinks, as they say, ensued.

For those of you who don’t have video, here’s a rough translation/summary of what Holder and Kirk said: Continue reading Mark Kirk backhands Eric Holder over the executive branch’s spying on Congress.

WaPo: Oh, by the way: the NSA lied about not spying on Americans. Oopsie!

Remember when the Obama administration had good weeks?

NSA chief, two weeks ago: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

The National Security Agency recently asked Verizon to turn over telephone metadata for tens of millions of Americans, the Guardian reported Wednesday, based on a leaked court document that appears to show an NSA request for customer data from April through July.

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Talk about awkward timing.

Continue reading WaPo: Oh, by the way: the NSA lied about not spying on Americans. Oopsie!

I’m going to score this SPECIFIC @verizon experience as a wash…

…it was frustrating as hell to find a person to talk to about the way that my phone died yesterday (turns out it was disconnected and the number reassigned), but the person that I did eventually talk to lacked that tooth-grinding sense of offended pique at having to work with a customer.  She was actually quite nice. I’m not actually all that ticked off at the phone being disconnected, either: I go long stretches of time without actually using it (I only have it for ease of contact at political events).

But I probably will still go to Cricket, assuming that Cricket will sell me a cell phone plan where I can just toss money into the damned thing whenever I need to use it for an event or something.  I don’t really like Verizon’s customer service paradigm, sorry.

Moe Lane

PS: Oh, yeah, I need new business cards now.  Dagnabbit.