Doing Things The Hard Way..

An article by the inimitable Anne Applebaum (well I don't try to imitate her anyway; I can't even pronounce the hell her strange anglo-german fusion of a second name) concerning the recent spy scandal...good stuff; in short, the attitude seem to be, why bother getting freely available information from Wall Street, academics, broadsheet newspapers and journals etc when you can waste years of time and heaps of money running 'spies' to try and get the same stuff, and then f*cking up...THE COLD WAR'S OVER, GET OVER IT!!