Salon is running a piece on Ashcroft’s summer pro-PATRIOT roadshow that includes a bit of data I hadn’t heard before: apparently, one potential successor to PATRIOT is called the “VICTORY Act.”

Up next, Victory Gin, Victory Chocolates, and Victory Cigarettes. Apparently, the literary blind spot at the Ashcroft DOJ extends from our own Constitution and Bill of Rights (PDF link) all the way to disturbingly prescient works of literature.