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Today marks 22 years off drugs.

Schadenfreude

Charles Pierce enjoys the suffering of the Palin family, Distort D'Newza, and Breitbart.com. So do I.

Them too

Lengthy discussion of misogyny in the atheist movement.

I'm American, and I get most of this

What the British papers will say if Scotland votes for independence.

Thanx to andrewducker

Here we go again

A social network cannot enforce a Real Names policy consistently because nobody wants to sign up for a virtual police state. One big reason Google + lost to Facebook is that it pretended harder. Not of course leaving well enough alone, Facebook has decided to make its own pretense a teense more convincing by picking on targets of opportunity: people whose Facebook names don't match the gender they're supposed to be. (Bad laws are always enforced against the most obviously defenseless.) Queerty has the story.