So, are you sick of how the tech moguls are using your personal data to enrich themselves at the expense of your privacy? Do you even know the degree to which they've infiltrated your life? Do you have any clue how much of your personal data they've aggregated from your online activities over the years?

The worst is Google. Every time you've installed something from Google, such as Gmail or the Chrome browser, you had to agree to their terms in their end-user license agreement (EULA). It's that massively long document that you have to say you've read and agree to.

I've read a couple of social media posts recently in which some people suggested that Halloween 2026 be proclaimed DeFlock America Day. They suggest that this is a good day to take out the cameras because the wearing of masks is expected.

This made me remember a scene from an episode of NCIS. I was going to post the clip, but Paramount has such tight copyright controls that even my screen recorder software wouldn't record it. So... I pulled it up on my big screen and recorded it from that. The quality's not great, but...

Screw Paramount. I claim Fair Use .

As I look at what we've all borne witness to in terms of the grotesque abuses of power over the past year, I keep wondering, if you'll pardon the cliché, if it's not possible to turn lemons into lemonade.

I've been thinking that we should look at this as a sort of stress test - something that has laid the flaws in our Constitutional republic out for us to examine - and use it as an opportunity to fine-tune what our forefathers envisioned.

As you're undoubtedly aware, on Sunday, December 21, CBS chose to kill a 60 Minutes segment 3 hours before airtime, apparently for political reasons, as it had already been fully vetted.

We've all been afraid of what would happen to this flagship show after the sale to the Ellisons, and I guess we now know.

On Monday - simply because it was the episode that had been sent to them, CBS' streaming partner in Canada, Global TV, streamed the episode with the segment that had been yanked in the U.S.. It has since been passed around quite a bit. (Note: This video includes the show's cold open.)

Care to watch it? Proceed...