Guest Thinkers — December 14, 2010

Julian Assange: “Krill to the Baleen of the Feminine”

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Who won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2006? Whoever it was, it should have been Julian Assange for this self-description:

Thu 29 Jun 2006 : Krill to the baleen of the feminine

Krill: small, crunchy, easily sucked in…

[Photo credit: Hanjeanwat, Creative Commons.]

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