I'm thinking about the fact that our government may move to extradite him from Hong Kong, and that they may be successful, and that they will move to put the man behind bars for the rest of his life.

I'm thinking about the fact that I, as a citizen, would like to be asked if I would agree to having my personal conversations and correspondence monitored in exchange for the promise of some security from terrorism. I would like to be able to vote for a candidate who would represent my point of view in one or the other houses of congress - or in the executive branch.

When I watched Snowden being interviewed, I had the sense that I was listening to an American kind of intelligence. It is a kind of intelligence with which I could feel that Benjamin Franklin might identify. Those founders did not give an inch.

The reversal by the government means that anyone, no matter how young, will soon be able to walk into a drugstore and buy the pill, Plan B One-Step, without a prescription.

The Justice Department had been fighting to prevent that outcome, but said late Monday afternoon that it would drop its appeal of a judge's order to make the drug more widely available. In a letter to Judge Edward R. Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the administration said it would comply with his demands that the Food and Drug Administration be allowed to certify the drug for nonprescription use.

The Justice Department appears to have concluded that it might lose its case with the appeals court and would have to decide whether to appeal to the Supreme Court. That would drastically elevate the debate over the politically delicate issue for Mr. Obama.

About damn time. Maybe with all the brouhaha over Snowden's revelations the administration has decided to pick its battles. Or maybe not. Maybe they just figured they would lose in both the courts and the court of public opinion.

Here's a nifty new way of looking at some old regional differences in dialect. NC State graduate student Joshua Katz was looking for an idea for his end-of-year statistics project, when he came across interesting linguistics data from Dr. Bert Vaux of Cambridge University. Vaux had collected data on regional dialects in the U.S. via a 120-question survey that asked about everything from the pronunciation of "caught" to whether "y'all" is preferred over "you." Then he had mapped that data, to indicate where particular dialect differences were more prevalent.

This crosses over into parts of FL and even here in southern Indiana sometimes as well.

Even with all that from LeBron, my favorite part of the 45 seconds is the no look over the head bounce pass by Mike Miller.