If the NSA has been secretly logging all the domestic calls they can, does that mean they have a record of every American Idol vote ever cast and who cast it? I don’t really know why I’m asking. I’ve been thinking lately that– in the interest of fighting the freedom haters, of course– it’s only a matter of time before someone more important than I says, “What if we combine a medical records database with the phone database? And, ooh, the travel database as well. Or credit card records! We could track every movement the terrorists make! And also everyone else. For freedom.” Unlike the altruists in our government, I have spent some serious time thinking about the abuses such a system would be subject to, and I think I’ve just thought of my favorite one: cross-referencing the logs of “American Idol” voters with actual voting records and sending the non-voting “Idol” callers really sarcastic mail.