Did you hear the latest horrible thing that Bush has done to the American people? The NSA puts cookies on your computer!!! And they mistakenly put some long-term cookies on people's computers until someone mentioned it and they realized their software was messed up and fixed it. The media is acting like Bush personally broke in to people's homes, opened up their computers and took their hard drives and replaced them with GOP bumper stickers. In fact what the NSA did with cookies was probably less invasive than the New York Times' cookie system. It seems somewhat hypocritical for the New York Times to whine that Bush is invading privacy by cookies to fight terrorism, but it's ok for a newspaper to do the same thing to collect consumer information. I'd have to say that while the consumer research might be vital for the survival of the New York Times (whose stock has plummeted over the past year), fighting terrorism is vital to the survival of American and should be given a bit more leeway on cookie use.