Some sanity about the Patriot Act and Privacy

I know that there is a general boycott of the NY Times on Mod-Blog because of their decision to start charging for content sometime in the near future, but I couldn't resist posting on an Op-Ed piece. Ted Koppel has written a piece called Take My Privacy, Please! in which he goes about showing all the other places where privacy is forfeited either on purpose or accidentally. Nonetheless, it seems that there are more dangerous things to worry about than whether the federal government knows what books we've taken out at the local library.