Lessons With Laura

There's a scene in the movie "Mean Girls" in which one of the main characters makes a bunch of copies of a Burn Book she's written and mass distributes them throughout the school. The Burn Book contains all sorts of information about everyone at the school- who's slept with who, who's talking behind someone's back, who's a lesbian, etc.

Naturally, the resulting pandemonium causes so much chaos that the school stops functioning.

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Though he does kind of look like Amanda Seyfried if you squint really hard...

Not to be outdone by Hollywood, the real world is even more insane; except that instead of Rachel McAdams and Lindsey Lohan, the main stirrer-of-the-pot is a possibly-albino Australian called Julian Assange.

And instead of unimportant gossip about high school girl's sexual habits (spoiler alert: they get around),
Assange has released thousands of classified documents about the inner gossip-induced drama fest workings of US Foreign Policy.

And even better than high school, the resulting chaos involves people who are in control of lots of money, governments, armies and weaponry!

France and American gossip about discuss Iran
Prince Charles isn't nearly as cool as the Queen!
Follow that UN Secretary General!
Azerbeijan's Leader eats soup! (or something)
Those Koreans are freaking weird, man
Cristina Kirchner looks SOOOO stressed out these days
Qadhafi is SO sleeping with that blonde chick with the fake boobs

Oh, yeah, and basically the entire middle east: Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen, Qatar, Oman, Jordan (yes, these are countries, not a basketball team) are all "Ahmadinejad doesn't play nice on the playground. TEEEEAACHER AMMEEERICA, put him in timeout bomb him!!"

Not exactly the comic I was going for but you get the point.

So naturally, while the public is appreciative of actually knowing the truth about their government, the governments of the affected countries are pissed. Sarah Palin (who isn't the government but is arguably the press's governmental lapdog) even said that we should be hunting down Assange like he's the Taliban or a TSA molestation pat-down dissenter.

The media, understandably pissed that Wikileaks just did their jobs for them, is calling it "irresponsible."

Hell, even Jimmy Carter (did anyone else forget he was still alive??) has an opinion.

Memorization is for wusses

I, on the other hand, have not yet formed an opinion. The fact that the world is run like a giant, more evolved high school doesn't surprise me in the slightest. And while I appreciate the arguments that Wikileaks has potentially harmed national security, I can't help but be a little glad that someone had the balls to out them.
Not only did it point out weaknesses in our important-document-storage system, but it also got the American public paying a little more attention to the way our leaders act when they aren't in front of a teleprompter.

Like high schoolers. With nukes. And bigger egos.