Changes aren't permanent
In a move that historians may record as among the most audacious and least self-aware complaint of all time, lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have loudly condemned the leaking of secret government documents pertaining to the rape charges against Assange. [emphasis added]
From the Atlantic Wire.
And I’m caught up! It only took a cold-induced bout of insomnia to do it.
I am a proponent of the Strong Gaia hypothesis. The Gaia hypothesis views the Earth as a single organism that regulates conditions to sustain life on the planet. The Strong Gaia hypothesis accepts this notion, but further hypothesizes that Gaia finally got so pissed off at being whacked by roving asteroids that She evolved big brained primates as an immune system to fend off asteroids using nuclear bombs.
I’m up early this morning because of this stupid cold, waiting for some tea to heat. While I wait, I figured I’d try and clear out my links. Today’s:
Sadly, it’s not to me. I don’t have that kind of access. Instead, it’s to Michael Yon (who ought to be on my blogroll). It’s about Wikileaks. An excerpt:
[L]et me just offer some perspective as somebody who’s been at this a long time. Every other government in the world knows the United States government leaks like a sieve, and it has for a long time. […] And this is a quote from John Adams: “How can a government go on, publishing all of their negotiations with foreign nations, I know not.”