While we're all fired up about robodogs, here's an abrupt change of topic.

The headlines are, "Government demands search engines had over information on searches that people do! AOL, Yahoo, MSN, say ok! Google says no!" and the interpretation is that Google is the lone defender of the rights of freedom and privacy that the government would take away.

I'm not so sure this isn't an accurate view of part of the picture, but I was reading the following article, which paints a more complex and frankly more interesting view of what's going on. Seems like the real story is "Government is inefficient!" Breaking news, that. But is this article any more accurate than the simpler "government bad, Google good" view of the story? And what do people think about where that fine line is between what information our government has a right to and what they don't?

Anyway, don't skip the postscripts. Postscript #9 is an interesting one.