Cause Celebre of the Day.

Even a geek can be a jerk.

Fio's been following the Edward Snowden situation with interest--and amazement.  It's like McGee (cf. NCIS) suddenly went bananas.   What possible good did the man think he was doing?  Every country spies on every other country, and everyone knows it, but no one makes a public spectacle of it--wouldn't be polite. And, yes, on the home front, our government also keeps track of dangerous people and organizations. Maybe Snowden wants terrorists to lead unobserved existences, but Fio doesn't. 

So now he's a man without a country, spending day number ten restricted to a Russian airport.  Just to spite the U.S, three South American countries--Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia--have said they'll give him asylum, but does Snowden really think any of them will let him lead an unfettered existence?   They'll keep that bottom-feeder under so much surveillance that he'll think he's living in a fishbowl.

Once a traitor, always a traitor.

Romancing TV

Due to the twenty-three mallow bars she consumed yesterday evening, Fiorella had a hard time falling asleep last night. So, being a romance writer, she occupied her caffeine-saturated brain by working out appropriate matches for the NCIS characters. (Uhm, did she mention that she and Husband watched three hours of the show last night?)

Anyway, McGee was the easiest to match up. The writers keep sticking him with sweet-seeming girls (who turn out to be killers) or fellow geeks (who get killed), but Fiorella thinks a change of pace is more appropriate. How about a smart, savvy blonde, maybe a real estate agent, who zeros in on him instead of Tony for all the right reasons. And for Tony, the smooth-talking Lothario who loves'em and leaves'em, Fio prescribes the sweetheart type, and here's the kicker: she's blind. Ziba approves because she brings out the best in Tony that lurks deep--VERY DEEP-- within.

Ziba is more difficult, and Fio will have to mull her situation over on another sleepless night, but Abbie should hook up with a straight-arrow rich guy who crusades for saving animals.

Gibbs will never remarry. Why should he? Apparently he has a string of one-night stands with women of a certain age lined up from here to eternity.