Sure, except this is not so much "celebrity gossip" nor is it "shallowly interesting".

The fact is that as we march down the technology path, we must be very very aware of the affects on our government our advancement down that path has.

In most cases, we are seeing that not only is our government wholly ill-equipped to deal with a technologically advanced populous - they are also, potentially, criminally liable for malfeasance.

There have been a whole hell of a lot of posts about AS, but he is just the subject of something far more important: having a technologically savvy and capable government in a technologically advancing civilization.