Piers Morgan vs. John Cleese. Pick a side. Think hard, weigh the options -

Whoa, everyone went to the Cleese side of the gym. Here's Piers:

OH WELL THEN IT'S ON. Good Lord, man, you made your feelings known on Twitter? Are you mad? What's next, status updates on Facebook? So imagine Morgan's horror when they found themselves in the same restaurant and noticed each other. He wrote a column about it.

Cleese responded:

After which Piers mustered the sort of taunt you expect from an inexplicably well-known hack:

The entire exchange is here. While it's true that Cleese hasn't done much lately, who cares? The man has a lifetime achievement pass for previous brilliance, and Piers - well.

VotD Not brand and/or spanking new, but new to me and hence I have to share it as if no one's seen it. Won't embed it for brief profanity, and if you think that's cowardly, well, that's just your opinion, man. (That will make sense after you see the video.) A little over 3 minutes, and worth every second. Here: 87 Bounces.

FACEBOOK There's a video going around Facebook that shows a screaming baby dunked in water. Why anyone would share it is one question; why anyone made it is another. I haven't seen it, and the subject matter alone is a warning. Guardian headline: "Facebook defends sharing of video of screaming baby being dunked." Not quite the whole story.

If I were king of the forest, people who treat children this way would be jailed for a long time and sterilized upon eventual release. Presumably my motives for posting this video would be acceptable. But. Content aside, this is why I stay clear of Facebook: they might grant you permission to post something because they approve of your motivations. What if you post it for the right reasons but describe them in a way Facebook misconstrues?

If something disturbs Group A, but is "freely available to see," that's not cause for the state to step in and say "Group A's standards are now going to be applied to everyone." But Facebook will. It is entirely within its rights to do so, being a private company no one is forced to patronize. But the trend to nix content because it disturbs someone relies on elastic and subjective definitions, and seems based on a utopian idea of creating a Safe Internet. Well, you can have a safe internet, or you can have a free internet. Choose one.