Due to technical difficulties, the site has been down for a couple of days. The hosting company suspended my account, apparently due to some type of spam attack. Thanks for that, whoever you are. The hosting company would only reactivate the account on the condition that I updated my Movable Type installation–I guess I was past due for that anyway. So I’ve done that. Or attempted to. But the comments and/or everything else may be out of order temporarily while I try to figure everything out.

Via TalkLeft, Blaghdaddy makes the case why political blogging is a waste of time. Basically, it’s because most Americans don’t care or even know about many of the things bloggers get worked up about.
It’s hard to argue with that; most Americans don’t know what is going on. But just because people aren’t paying attention doesn’t necessarily mean some of the issues aren’t important; some of them are. Besides, I like knowing what’s going on, regardless of whether blogging has an impact or not.

I have a very small stash of $2 bills. No real reason why; since they are relatively rare I just felt like keeping them rather than spending them. Perhaps I there’s a good reason not to spend them after all.

Apparently in Florida the first to draw his side arm is the winner!

The Schiavo memo evidence has finally surfaced and it turns out that a lot of people were simply blowing smoke. Surprise, surprise.
Some people faulted news outlets for poorly sourcing the memo story when it first ran. But if those journalists running a correct story “blew it,” what credibility do we assign those mouths who denied the story, offering no contrary evidence to support their false theories?