Powell Does the Right Thing

In a way I wish he had also repudiated the war, but what he did do is more likely to prevent McCain from ratfucking and vote-stealing his way into the WH.

OK then, "phone calls are being made."

McCain-Palin-Clark

What, you're kidding, right?  McCain and Obama are tied.  Is this poll fraud, or is it a nation, not of whiners, but of idiots?  I know conservatives who have brains.  I disagree with their premises, and I think they are mentally rigid, but they are rational, and we can get to where we understand where it is we disagree.

But Sarah Palin?  What kind of brain-dead monkey thinks a huge chip on your shoulder is a qualification for being a heartbeat away from control of history's biggest economy and history's biggest military machine?  Well, nobody has "control" of that economy, but certainly the POTUS has the ability to guide it towards or away from the rocks.  Captain Clark welcomes you aboard....

Is this SPAM?

Just wondering, that's all.  I see that quite a number of people have had their blogs classified as SPAM, and are having some difficulty reasoning effectively w/Blogger.  What's up with that?

I'm trying to determine if this is a software or operations anomaly which will at some point be remedied, or if there's something more evil going on, which I have seen alleged.

It appears that when a blog is declared SPAM, the specific rule that triggered that declaration is not cited for the blogger.  Why not?

Whose fault *is* this?

Can it be big business?
No shit, Sherlock. Call security.
It's time to put the blame on narcotics and sexual diversity,
What's the game? And I'm sick of the exclusion.
I'm sick of the stench of your clueless collusion.

OK, I'm not from the UK like Holmes or the fella at the other end of that link, but there's plenty of clueless collusion around here too. Nice local fella who wants to see HRC get the Dem nomination because "if you get Hillary, you get Bill too, and I trust Bill." Thing is, it'd be easier to accept if this were an adenoidal idiot speaking, but I can't explain it away that easily. If people who are *not* totally idiotic are going to get sucked in by the promise of triangulation to be at least better than total ratfucking evil and therefore functionally indistinguishable from the Dawn of a New Era, well then, fuck.

Millionth Monkey Theory

Where "Millionth" is a very large ordinal number.  At some point, according to this theory, a blogger will make Shakespeare obsolete.