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Driftglass: Days of Future Passed

David Atkins: Dishonestly and ignorantly switching the culprit from guns to games

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Paul Krugman: Coins Against Crazies

Robert Fisk: Anonymous trolls are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate the gutless journalism of the New York Times, BBC, and CNN

Charles Pierce: The Chris Christie Conundrum 

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