I'm conflicted on this comment.

On the one hand, I agree with your yay #2(and your yay#1, of course. TextBlob looks great). I think you're right. I have many venues to discuss NSA issues and few venues to discuss startup/programming stuff. I like having a venue that is typically devoted to such stuff.

On the other hand, I'm not sure that saying "this isn't about Snowden" on tech-related articles that don't involve Snowden is the solution. Why bring him into the conversation when we're talking about Python?