THE SAMIZDATA STRIKES BACK: Your favorite secret-master-of-the-world and mine, the Samizdata Illuminatus, has revealed himself. He does not have a giant God-hat like I thought he would. He did, apparently, star in the original D.W. Griffith version of Stargate. I'm sorry --that was TERRIBLE. That joke, I mean.

And I did always kind of think of myself as the North Korea of the bloggersphere; you know, nice uniforms, cult of personality, delusions of grandeur, giant unfinished hotels --aww yeah, that's where it's at. All I need is a small thermonuclear device and I'll have INSTANT CREDIBILITY. Like Pakistan. I think.