16 Oct
2015
16 Oct
'15
2:54 p.m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange Assange began <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28computer_security%29>hacking under the name Mendax (from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace>Horace's splendide mendax: "nobly untruthful"). That was Julian's teeny-bop spy parody proto-Hebdo. Slyer wit now with middle-aged foreign affairs pedantry. Endless war askance a pension plan.
You know what, John: you're right. It doesn't matter what Mendax calls you. Some of us have placed you in that category all on our own.
Recent events would not have been quite as alarming, otherwise.
-S