From the Truth-is-Stranger-than-Satire Department

I've commented before on how difficult it is to satirize the current political situation, especially the doings of the Bush administration. No sooner does someone come up with a cleverly exaggerated version of a Bush policy than the Bushies come thundering across the plains and surpass it in some dunderheaded way.

Remember when The Onion satirically announced that the Patriot Act forbade discussion of the Patriot Act?

Guess what.

Washington Post story here. (If their website demands registration and you're tired of telling them that you're a 105-year-old Bahrainian woman who makes $10 billion a year in research and development, click here.) ACLU press release here. The usual erratic Slashdot discussion here.