DEN BESTE explains the Oracle scandal, which still isn’t getting the national play you’d expect. He adds: “Oracle is the company which wants to build a national database to support a national ID card that all residents of the US would be required to carry. Be very afraid.”

Yep. They’re buying politicians, and want to build a system that will track Americans. The only good news is that — based on this transaction — the government will wind up letting Oracle sell it a piece-of-crap system that isn’t any good.

UPDATE: Jim Glassman supports a national ID card, but says that Larry Ellison shouldn’t be allowed near it, since he has a habit of spying on people. But Eric Peters isn’t having any of it.