243872-Wikileaks-1314991224-139-640x480What a week. Thanksgiving. Korean peninsular envy. WikiLeaks.

By now, as the world is well aware, the website WikiLeaks released to major news agencies—and, really, though the stunning levelling of the web to everyone—a portion of nearly 250,000 diplomatic communiqués it obtained through gray channels.

The president and his secretary of state are nervously calling allies, warning them they might very well be offended by what the president and the secretary of state might or might not have said regarding allies and enemies.

[“Uh, I’m sorry to bother you, uh, I said some things about you I shouldn’t have. I’m really, really sorry. Will you still be my friend?”]

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