Monday night link blag

Andrew:

Mexico's ambassador urges the decriminalization of marijuana as a way to weaken the cartels. Domestic production is way up. Mexico's Congress is considering decriminalization. Cultural mainstreaming, especially in the thirteen states that allow for medical use, is gaining pace. Any day now, sanity threatens to break out.

A TMV columnist likes Rachel Maddow.

Another gathers reactions to Captain Phillips' rescue from Somali pirates.

Another gathers even more reactions. (Hey, they're useful summaries of what people are thinking.)

Politico: Obama boosts anti-abortion efforts, but not the way you think.

The Post: Rahm Emanuel knows how to deal.

Civil liberty watchdogs are pissed at Obama's continuation of Bush policies.

Wikipedia is voting to migrate from the clunky GNU Free Documentation License to a Creative Commons license. Yay!

John McCain's daughter wants a gayer GOP.

Some geezers talk about their work at Area 51 during the 60's.

China has really bad air quality.

Various politicians seek to promote software piracy protect the children by taxing violent videogames. No word yet on whether they'll invest the resulting revenue in abstinence-only miseducation.