DANCE FOR ME, QUERIDA

Good morning. It’s Monday. You don’t feel like dancing.

Morticia Addams will change that.



Play it again Lurch,

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WIKILEAKS IS OBAMA’S 9/11

At least if you ask John Bolton, who – like Marc “WikiLeaks Is War” Thiessen – thinks there’s nothing wrong with WikiLeaks that a room full of cyberwarriors couldn’t fix.

Finally, the Pentagon's cyber-warriors need target practice in this new form of combat, and they could long ago have practised by obliterating WikiLeaks' electrons. Had we acted after the first release in July, there might not have been subsequent leaks, and lives and critical interests would have been protected.

Because as we all know, the Internet is a bunch of electrons flowing through a series of tubes.

Well, never mind. When it comes to sensible foreign policy, we all know about ol’ John, who’s always said there’s no problem that can’t be solved with disproportionate violence. Besides, the point of the article wasn’t so much to propose a realistic way to deal with WikiLeaks as it was to find a way to blame Obama for it.

While we’re on WikiLeaks (again), a couple more links worth passing on:

1. A good critique of WikiLeaks by someone who doesn’t resort to the ridiculous “WikiLeaks is al Qaeda/WikiLeaks is attacking America” meme.

In essence: WikiLeaks is doing more to destroy govt transparancy than to encourage it, because it will simply encourage the govt to improve its security and make it even harder for whistleblowers to have access to documents. Which is probably true.

2. Meanwhile, if yr actually more interested in the actual contents of the leaks than the drama over Assange and WikiLeaks itself, go here.

And that ought to do it for WikiLeaks posts. Today.

Leaky,

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TWELVE DAYS OF DEF XMAS, PART 1 : OH YEAH UH COME ON

It’s that time of year again. And this holiday season, I thought I’d try something a little different: a countdown list representing the 12 Days Of Christmas.

Starting with the 12 drummers drumming.

Obviously there aren’t any songs about 12 drummers drumming. But we do have The Osmonds singing about drums as a metaphor for teenage masturbation.

Which is, you know, pretty impressive for Mormons.

Okay, it might really just be about drumming. But c’mon:

When I feel the aggravation
When I feel the old frustrations
I go into my room and hit my drum
(hit it)

When I feel the time approaching
Deep inside a big explosion
I pickup my sticks (pickup my sticks) and hit my drum

Tell me he’s just talking about percussion instruments.

FUN FACT: My sister was a big Osmonds fan when she was seven. I wasn’t very big on them (not even at nine years old), but I thought they had a few good songs. This was my favorite. And it’s probably as close as they ever got to glam rock.

Slip the drummer one,

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