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Via NeoWayland’s Pagan Vigil<\/a> blog: the National Institute on Drug Abuse was upset with its Wikipedia entry and tried to fight back<\/a>. The results were not what the “drug warriors” hoped for.<\/p>\n

Mark Twain supposedly defined the futility of fighting with a newspaper by saying, “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.”<\/p>\n

What do we say now? Electrons don’t come in barrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via NeoWayland’s Pagan Vigil blog: the National Institute on Drug Abuse was upset with its Wikipedia entry and tried to fight back. The results were not what the “drug warriors” hoped for. Mark Twain supposedly defined the futility of fighting with a newspaper by saying, “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-war-on-some-drugs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-cU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=271","url_meta":{"origin":800,"position":0},"title":"Drug war backfires again The\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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