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  • You may have noticed that the spam catcher is not catching anything, hasn't been all day today. I haven't changed anything that I know of, and reported the problem to TypePad earlier today, but so far no response. I may have to enable "captcha", which I very much hate. 

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  • Hospitals are treating insects now:  Bedbugs rack up hospital bills.

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  • Update: this is not the hijacked car, which was an SUV, which this clearly is not. This photo did appear in connection with the bombings. I haven't taken the time, and probably won't, to try to track down what was actually going on here. — It was  a brief laugh, but it was a laugh.…

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  • Over-zealous Spam Filter

    As you may have noticed if you've been reading the Thatcher discussion, several comments have been erroneously held by the TypePad spam catcher. So far it's only picked on Daniel Nichols, and I don't have any idea why. However, I just logged in to TypePad and noticed a helpful hint that I should check the…

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  • There seems to be something wrong with comments. When you post one, you get an error message: 'Can't locate object method "log_user_activity" via package "PhenoType::View"'. So it looks like the comment didn't post, but it did. At least that's what appears to be happening. Update: seems to be working ok now.

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  • See You On Sunday

    Despite my intense desire to make caustic remarks about various current events, I won't be posting anything until at the earliest sometime late in the day Sunday. I'll look in here occasionally to get rid of any spam that makes it through (TypePad recently switched spam-fighting software and the new system seems to miss more),…

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  • Advice from a spambot: "Continue to maintain up the extremely fantastic operate." Ok, I'll do my best.

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  • When I did those two posts about politics and the anti-Christ a few months ago (here and here), I kept asking myself if I was being overly pessimistic and paranoid. There is certainly a good deal of fear and hysteria among Christians in our time, and I didn't want to be drawn into it, or encourage it…

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  • This is where man's greatness lies; only the mind can do that: to perceive the separation between what he is, what he does, what he gives himself, and what he wants, what he can hope for. Even in the lower courtyard I can look beyond the gate; I can hear a call (perhaps I cannot…

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  • Warning: dogs are gross.    (Via my daughter Ellen.)

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