Good news for once

A Federal judge has ruled part of the USA Patriot Act unconstitutional, saying the section forbidding "expert advice or assistance" to groups designated as foreign terrorist organizations was unconstitutionally vague.

In other news, the New York Post busted a man who recently appeared in a NYT article about the ubiquity of surveillance cameras in New York. Seems the man himself had just been busted for making obscene phone calls at a temp job and had been caught by -- guess what -- a surveillance camera.

Brown, who -- according to the [NYT] newspaper article -- has mapped out surveillance cameras in parts of several cities, knew the location of most cameras inside the office. He deliberately covered his face or averted his glance as he walked by, investigators said. But one camera in the lobby he didn't notice.