XENI JARDIN: About That AutoPen: “I don’t know that I agree with Graves’ fears, but something just seems wrong about automating the process of signing this particular bill into law, given its far-reaching implications for the privacy and liberty of all Americans, and all the secrecy this law entails. Maybe I’m having a Bill Keller moment: maybe the technology doesn’t matter, and the ceremony of a human hand and a pen and a piece of paper is just familiar theater. But in this case, could the president have been any more detached?”

UPDATE: Several readers say this is eerily somehow reminiscent of the mortgage “robosigning” business.

Plus, from the comments at BoingBoing: “It also seems oddly appropriate that a marginally constitutional bill was signed in a marginally constitutional way.”