: About Me

My name is Ben Erdrich. I write. I know stuff, so I write about it. A bizarrely encyclopedic level of trivial knowledge is what flows through my brain and therefore I write random or remarkably thought out things. Some more than they really should be. I don't have much else to tell you.

My passion is ...

writing?

I know too much about ...

The Power Rangers

My parents always told me ...

leave your brother alone.

My childhood ambition ...

become a god.

My favorite memory ...

is dirty.

Why I write ...

because it's easy.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Hitchhiker's Guide/Lost/Venom Lord

My first job ...

picking weeds in a field

My best moment ...

I'm getting around to it.

My inspiration ...

Dirk Diggler.

Politics, News & Issues > People in the News Is WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange the subject of a smear campaign?

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Is Julian Assange a victim of a smear campaign conspiracy? Perhaps. It would be foolish not to consider the fact he's the figurehead for WikiLeaks, and therefore all the blame around the Cables falls to him. He seems to be convinced he’s the center of a conspiracy that is politically driven. It would be really easy to just accept what he says, that the governments of the world are trying to take him down with a smear campaign, but what if he’s not? What if he’s just a rapist trying to escape justice? While it could easily be said he’s being hounded because of his st...

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