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Just when America teeters on the verge of admitting Libertarians into polite company, John Stossel steps forward to remind us that they’re all batshit crazy:

Here’s a novel idea: Escape the suffocating chains of intrusive government by starting your own country!

That’s Patri Friedman’s idea. He comes from an impressive line of libertarian thinkers. Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prize-winning free-market economist, was his grandfather. His father is David Friedman, author of the libertarian classic “The Machinery of Freedom.” Milton Friedman advocated severely limited government. David Friedman thinks we need no government at all. And now Patri believes he has an effective solution to bad government: communities on the ocean surface, or seasteading.

To be clear, this isn’t some fanciful Ark, a rhetorical device to express the wistful desires of disenchanted progs to depart for the high seas and indulge in wanton drug-fueled orgies live a life free of people like John Stossel. No, Miltie’s Grandspawn is serious:

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If you’re not familiar with how the Internet works, there are domains (stinque.com), and there are subdomains (zombie.stinque.com). A subdomain is very easy to set up — just an additional entry in your domain registration record. Heck, if there was a market for it, we could sell custom subdomains: YourNameHere.stinque.com.

Some web-hosting companies do just that. Of course, it means that your custom subdomain is dependent on the primary domain remaining live, but what could possibly go wrong?

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Rick Santorum has a Santorum Problem:

“It’s one guy. You know who it is. The Internet allows for this type of vulgarity to circulate. It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues. But he has an opportunity to speak,” Santorum told Roll Call.

Dan Savage posted the original site in 2003, and it still smells as sweet as the day it was rimmed.

Santorum Talks About Longtime Google Problem [Roll Call]

Joanne Siegel, the Model for Lois Lane, Dies at 93 [NYT]

Joanne Siegel, The Inspiration for Lois Lane, Passes Away at 93 [Comics Alliance]

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering, “What would happen if somebody mashed up Google Streetview with Zombies?”, well, now you know.

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Speaking of dogs (arf!), ThinkProgress is treating this memo from Rupert Murdoch’s iPad Editor like a chew toy:

Folks, Egypt is over — time for us to get focused on covering America. We need to get out there and start finding more compelling stories from around the country — not just scraping the web and the wires, but getting out on the ground and reporting.

Find me an amazing human story at a trial the rest of the media is missing. Find me a school district where the battle over reform is being fought and tell the human tales. Find a town that is going to be unincorporated because it’s broke. Find me a story of corruption and malfeasance in a state capitol that no one has found. Find me something new, different, exclusive and awesome. Find me the oldest dog in America, or the richest man in South Dakota. Force the new White House press secretary to download The Daily for the first time because everyone at the gaggle is asking about a story we broke. Get in front of a story and make it ours — force the rest of the media to follow us.

It’s good stories that will keep people coming back to The Daily — we’ve assembled a crack news team, so let’s show the world what we can do.

Singling out the dog story for mockery is something of a stretch — this memo could just as easily have been issued by NPR, or any general-interest publication.

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