Fair and Unbalanced: Just block out the bad news, and everything will be fine.

I Should Be Laughing: Timișoara, Romania, just held its first Pride Festival, despite the best efforts of the local bigots.

Darwinfish 2: Dealing with police abuses and corruption will take tough action from the top.

Shower Cap: "I was several hours into reading the day's news before I realized, to my chagrin, that I had neither consumed hallucinogenic drugs nor experienced severe head trauma, and therefore all this shit was really happening."

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