With Berlusconi before the courts and with Libya's war pornography helping the world get off, it's easy to forget that there's a 23 year old kid sitting in solitary confinement facing life imprisonment.

Bradley Manning, the U.S private accused of leaking 720,000 documents to WikiLeaks has been forgotten; he's not getting Assange like fame or reverence, or an Assange like house arrest.

Instead he's been shackled, alone in a cell and very often disrobed so he doesn't harm himself.  

Whether you agree with what he did or not, we have to remember that he's a U.S citizen, we have to remember what rights he has, and we have to remember what terrible long years he faces alone. 

We have to remember him.   . . read more

Today it has been announced by Defense-Secretary Robert Gates that security is being stepped up to protect the Navy SEALs who killed Osama Bin Laden.

The challenge has been picked up by Facebook who assures them that if they get an account with them that their privacy will be assured, as opposed to Google who Facebook tells us leaks information to the authorities. 

Julian Assange has told us that Facebook is actually the bad guy and that when WikiLeaks gets the identities of the SEALs he'll reveal them immediately, along with the identity of Santa which he says he's been sitting on for months.

A spokesmen from the Navy said that the SEALs "were as happy as Mel Gibson who is apparently back in the 'beaver', and that they just wanted more fish and places to frolic".

If you were a SEAL where would you hide from terrorists? Tell us and remember...Disqus!  . . read more

The term viral marketing implies something that spreads quickly around the world so that eventually everyone comes in contact with it. Kind of sounds like swine flu or herpes when you think about it.

The duel meaning of the world "viral" isn't coincidental.

Something that goes "viral" requires a disease of the brain where the lobe that controls critical thinking and the ability to put things in perspective is disabled.

Rebecca Black writes the worst song world - in contrast to the Joycean genius of Justin Bieber.

An anti-Asian rant becomes the multimedia "Mein Kampf"

The point is that for five minutes the world's eyes turns to it, the media writes a story about the phenomenon, everyone sees it, everyone forgets about it.

And then we repeat.

The similarities to the seasonal cold which keeps coming back in different forms are hard to miss.

What do you think? Do you think something that goes viral implies that it has a quality that makes people want to spread it? Tell us and remember...Disqus! . . read more