Was He Free? Was He Happy? The Question Is Absurd: Had Anything Been Wrong, We Should Certainly Have Heard

About the wikileaks: surely it's just a coincidence Bush asswipe Michael Hayden popped up hours before the release of the leaks to say war against Iran is inevitable.

Here's what the wikileaks release will change: nothing, though the nothing will get worse.

• On rights, legal, moral and otherwise.
• Pakistan's pissed? Heh.
• You're not allowed to take photos of federal buildings?
• Asshole Diehl never suggests ending the fucking drug war even to dismiss the idea.
• Media standards of integrity.
• Obama won't nominate Warren.
• UPDATE! Hopelessly dumb.
• Who Obama thinks it's important to woo.
• UPDATE! Time to stop fooling ourselves.
• The prescience of George Carlen.
• Eighteen people have registered to run against Babs?

• Why not tax the fucking mcmansionists more?
• Fuck Fobin Ricker, who cannot die soon enough.
• The perils of parity.
• UPDATE! Baltimore United?
• City is determined to make me hate it.
• Awesome:

• New Precisionism.
• Beats.
• The man with many pens.
• What is the link with Lady Gaga?
• Time tunnel.
• While we're young and almost free.
• Bang!
• Playlist for heat and claustrophobia.

THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN

W.H. Auden

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was
    a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in 
    every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left
    it cured.
Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content 
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, 
    he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of 
    his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their
    education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

It's a sillyass video, but this, which was put in my head an hour ago, for a gagillion reasons, really is one of my five favorite songs ever: