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So, a few people contacted me about my most recent post, citing the recent examples of establishment-biased editing in Wikipedia.

Sure, Wikipedia is falable. It always was. It’s constantly changing, often pranked, slanderized, pimped out, trash talked, and everything else that you can think would happen to a typical community with no real police force except it’s own upstanding citizens.

And I’m certain that for the four examples I provided above, there are hundreds more, maybe even thousands that have not been found yet. But we are finding them; we do rule Wikipedia, don’t we? It’s a democracy in the purest form of the word. (From the Greek: Demos:People, and Kratos:Power). The people hold the power here, all of us. And of course there are going to be some bad apples that want to spoil the whole thing; every society has a criminal element, after all.

Thankfully, now that WikiScanner is on the case, Wikipedia just got itself a bonefied legal system. How does Wal-mart editing it’s own page to make it sound like the company actually pays a living wage hold up once the whole thing is out in the open? Propaganda doesn’t work very well when you know it’s propaganda.

So, to sumarize: I have faith in Wikipedia, but not blind faith. I reserve blind faith for Hulkamania…

In the spirit of the glorious reign of The Honky Tonk Man, I think I’m going to create a new breakfast, the Intercontinental Breakfast. It’s basically a regular Continental Breakfast, but with a half pound of bacon on the side.