Sigh

So the longer piece I was gonna post needs editing and citations and stuff.  And that’s way too hard for me right now.  I mean, I’m planning on doing it, and I’ll work on it this afternoon, but there is a possibility that I won’t finish today, and I won’t be around in the pm, so i figured I’ll post one or two links.

No ones’ reading this thing, so I don’t feel the need to go back and write out a definitive statement on Wikileaks.  If you (the theoretical you, that is) read a little I’m sure you’d already assume that I’m a cheerleader for them, and you’d be right.

So let me just jump right to posting this link, which is an excellent discussion of some of Assange’s writing.  You should certainly listen to zunguzungu and click through to read it for yourself, but be forewarned:  it’s harder to track down the 2nd half of the essay than it sounds.  I assume you can dig it out of the internet archive, but I haven’t managed to yet.

Anyway, the whole discussion is the most subversive thing you’ll  read in a minute, not only in intent, but in the depth of Assange’s (and zunguzungu’s) observations.  Both sound right to me.

While you’re over there, you should probably check out this too.

On the subject of Tunisia, and following from zunguzungu, check out  Jillian C. York, and her excellent coverage of the events there.  I’d start here, personally, but that might have something to do with my distrust of technophilia.

Both blogs are new discoveries for me, and I’m very happy to have found them.  Not that two academic types are at all impressed by the approval of some foul mouthed schmuck from Brighton, but whatetever.

More later, the cat is demanding attention.

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