This week’s episode of OMG/JK is a long one — the longest yet, in fact, at 30 minutes.

When an employee cries foul against a big tech company or its greed-driven investors, it’s easy to take the side of the employee, especially when an employee comes forward on the record to state his or her case. A wronged employee is inherently more sympathetic than a big, greedy private equity firm or a faceless corporation, and it’s rare that an employee will actually publicly take a stand.

“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil ” – Walter Lippmann So, that’s it. The hacking group known as LulzSec has called off its vandalism spree, three days after releasing its one meaningful “payload”: a batch of documents from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Bold promises of similar data dumps, including “ five gigabytes of government and law enforcement data from across the world “, were apparently just that; promises

Sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives the other day, we saw the Speaker accept the report of the resignation of the gentleman from New York, as Boehner called Weiner. Yet another knee-drop to the power of Twitter in a city that produces laws like the Valley does startups

Editor’s note : This guest post was written by  Dave Chase,  the CEO of  Avado.com , a health technology company that was a  TechCrunch Disrupt finalist .  Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the founder of Microsoft’s Health business

I almost miss the bad old days.

Skype is being criticized for terminating employees immediately prior to the closing of the Microsoft acquisition, and people are assuming they’re doing this to keep the value of those employees stock options. Skype’s response boils down to saying that the employees were fired because they weren’t good employees, and that the value of the stock is negligible and didn’t affect the decision making process.