Upside Down, Inside Out, Round and Round

I had a casual obervation about the transexual proved innocent by DNA evidence. I remember when DNA evidence first came up, the ACLU and other such civil liberties organizations feared that our society would become 1984ish and we'd have these big databases of information on people and convicting all sorts of criminals based upon DNA evidence alone. But as far as I can tell, DNA evidence seems to be working in the exact opposite way - it is more often used to prove the negative, to demonstrate that without a doubt - this creepy pedophile actually did not kill Jean Benet. Civil libertarians should be happy they were wrong.

But there so many other things that are all flipped around these days. Liberals have turned into isolationist foreign policy wonks. GW Bush, the FP realist, has turned into a liberal internationalist in the school of Woodrow Wilson. Civil libertarians argue for strict interpretation of the constitution when it comes to new technologies available for surveillance, but for loose interpretation of the constitutiono when it comes to technology with guns. Conservatives argue for huge increases in government spending. It's all very confusing, really.