We're very happy with it. Russian and Italian combine well. Another option is to copy my friends, who turned her Rowe and his Lopez into Roze. Which has to be how a bunch of modern names were formed anyway.

My wife and I just took each other's names. We're a couple of hyphens.

Are these companies obligated to show you what they have on you, for verification purposes? What if the goal would be, rather than to be removed, to check what they're saying and to correct errors?

I completely agree with you. I was actually trying to avoid characterizing this as censorship in any form. People have the right to socially disapprove of things they don't like, and that includes everything from jokes about homosexuals to jokes about airline food. Carlos Mencia is not a victim just because 100% of…

Sad.

Okay, the outrage has gone too far. If we keep this up, we're going to wind up with a whole profession full of stand-up apologists.

I agree, impossible for an outsider to know, absent a ton more evidence that I don't even want.

Isn't it possible that she knows she has to walk back any hint at criminality because it's slander?

I really respect that you're willing to take her up on the column offer. You realize, of course, that you'd be doing a lot of edoiting?

It wasn't a threat. It was an "observation" posted on a public forum and it wasn't even an outlandish observation (mainstream pundits started speculating immediately after the OBL kill that there would be an increased threat of reprisals — that's exactly what this kid said. And it's the kind of thing people have the…

Second.

The support is bad because, ultimately, you're not Facebook's customer. You're what they're selling. It only has to be good enough for you to keep coming back. You know who gets good support from Facebook? Zynga, that's who.

It's a reasonable point of view, Deth. Though I do worry about what kind of moral and social lessons are learned by young people growing up in a surveillance culture.

No, God's not supposed to get involved with the government!

I happen to have Professor Jay Rosen right here behind this stand up placard of Marshall MacLuhan...

People like you who have opinions that diverge from mine are why we live in a police state. Okay, that was sarcasm.