That NSA leaker guy Edward Snowden left Hong Kong (and a heartbroken King Kong) for Moscow today. Wikileaks people said he was seeking political asylum in another country. But that expression, "political asylum", always makes me think of something else. Because isn't an asylum where they keep crazy people? (At least, that's what it's become understood to mean.)
So whenever I hear the term "political asylum", I think of a place where they keep all the crazy politicians like Lyndon Larouche, Michele Bachmann, Rod Blagojevich, etc. And then I wonder why anybody would want to get sent there. Maybe they get politically brainwashed there, and it's not even the people's fault what they're like, because it's the asylum that abducts them and lobotomizes them, uses shock treatment, brainwashes and re-educates them into acting the way they do. And if that's the case, then I wouldn't think Mr. Snowden would want to go there at all. (Maybe he has an unwelcome surprise waiting for him there?)
