Monday morning roundup

Belarus goes the extra Stalinist mile.

Southern Sudan's referendum is a huge deal.

Facebook is slow to gain traction in Japan.

Ross Douthat lets the far right off the hook for Saturday's tragedy, with a fairly compelling argument, actually. See Courtland Milloy for the opposite view, and E.J. Dionne for a compromise position. On another angle, Gail Collins asks whether we've a right to bear glocks. Chris Cillizza doubts anything will come of that question.

So, what is it about Arizona??

Someone at the Post came to work drunk this morning. In case they fix it by the time you follow the link, the headline (and link) says, "gasgdasdgasdgsg adgsag asgsa gasdg sa gdg." The Post also decided to print some dairy industry propaganda.