An essay advocating reform of Ann Arbor's one-party-monopoly electoral system [Ann Arbor Chronicle]

Many of the important details in Obama's autobiographies are bullshit says biographer [BuzzFeed]

Cops sure do hate dogs these days [The Agitator, KTBS.com]

Facebook wants users' cell numbers in bid to bolster security [CNet]

Escalation: Police Weapon Evolution as a function of Demographics [SBPDL]

Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik says 'prison is like dying with your eyes open'  [NY Daily News]

The story of an ex-CIA agent's legal problems after she kidnapped a terror suspect in Italy. Now she's wanted by Interpol [Foreign Policy]

What Facebook knows about you [Technology Review]

The American Jewish Future: Orthodox, Right-Wing, Poor? [The Volokh Conspiracy, JTA]

Detroit Corporation Counsel's lawsuit to void emergency state aid agreement dismissed by judge [Detroit News]

A Handgun When You Can’t Buy a Handgun [Gunsamerica]

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A "white-flight" from MySpace to Facebook? Is the name of an actual, for-real academic paper and here is some criticism of it from demographer and conservative pundit Steve Sailer.

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Privacy is gone. Get over it: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation's FOIA request has revealed government memos encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them."  Via this Slashdot post. Watch out what you post and who you chat with. The feds are out there listening, watching, gathering and storing intel on us. Not to mention the corporations who have been doing this for years.

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Some pics of the Saginaw county (MI) sheriff's drug team's vandalism and destruction of a (licensed) marijuana grower for having too many plants - MLive

Over $7,000 in damage. Much more when you add in they stuff they confiscated. You'd think they were raiding a meth lab or something.

Five traits of true leaders - Art of Manliness

Should you delete your Facebook account? - CNet

FB's ever-changing privacy policies and frequent hacks and penetrations by cyber crooks makes it an idea worth considering.

Saudi women punches out a member of "virtue police" - Infoshop News

Keep your laws off my body pig! Heh.

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Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss - Times of London

How do governments convince people to obey them? - Let A Thousand Nations Bloom (Mike Gibson)

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Remembering the SR-71 Blackbird. - Gizmodo

Labor unions baffling lack of progress in the private sector - American Prospect (Harold Meyerson)

Facebook is for stalkers, haters and trolls - Cnet (Chris Matyszczyk)

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What will really lead to the legalization of marijuana - Ann Althouse

The government's need for something else to tax.

Chinese state launches human wave attack on the Web - Ars Technica (Nate Anderson)

280,000 people paid to post in forums, blog and etc on the order and for the benefit of PRC apparatchiks.

Nevada Democratic Party disinformation campaign for Harry Reid unravels. (Yahoo News)

25 Things to always have on you "just in case"- Code Name Insight blog (h/t: LRC)

The poet laureate of modern American male loserdom - NY Review of Books

Facebook to automatically share all your stuff with sites you never signed up for? - TechCrunch (Jason Kincaid)