Rage On, Righteous One

The original Big Mac Attack.

I never felt that WikiLeaks release of State Department internal cables was that big a deal to the US.  In fact, I argued that it was a refreshing breath of fresh air into the stultified world on international diplomacy - or as it's known to most people: artful lying. (I just spend fifteen minutes trying to find what I wrote at the time, but I failed.)

Now, we have Anonymous.  Westboro Baptist Church are a bunch of evil, evil people.  Someone hacked their site.  WBC blamed Anonymous, who are a well known group of hackers who take on big institutions.  In a phone in show, one of the evil minions of WBC kept ranting about what Anonymous did - when someone else named j3st3r (jester) claimed credit for the hack.  The Anonymous member got so cheesed off at this nitwit that in the space of one her rants, he went in and crashed their website.  Took like ten minutes.

I love it when Hilarious and Awesome get married and have a kid named Justice.

I don't buy that Twitter leads to revolutions or Facebook ousts dictators.  But, while Julian Assange is a narcissistic jerkweed, what WikiLeaks and Anonymous are doing is really cool.

Ezra Klein has been wondering what will take the place of unions, as a 21st century economy renders them irrelevant.  Maybe the great democratic potential of the internet is finally beginning to be unleashed.

And if Anonymous has a contribution site, I will give them money.