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Trying to keep up with the Palin rumors is exhausting.

“I believe — and we’ll know soon enough if I’m right — that John McCain did something Thursday night more powerful and astonishing than Sarah Palin did the previous evening. Sarah stole Obama’s glamour. McCain stole his message.”
— Bill Whittle @ NRO

And what’s the deal with the URL’s, NRO? This one has as its useful data “MzcwNmQ4MTczNzBkN2NjNTdhMWQ3MjY2Nzc3NzZhODI”. That’s enough space for roughly 3×10⁸⁵ posts. (That is, 44 characters on a 52 symbol alphabet, so 44⁵².) Probably the result of some big ugly hash. 352 bits.

Okay, it’s good to plan for expansion, but if they used a date-time-sequence code they could have an arbitrary number of posts, not a mere 30 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion.

chattering bandersnatches — Jonah Goldberg

Oh, and by the way, our politicians lost the war in Vietnam, but John McCain won his war. Those bastards beat him but they didn’t break him, and he walked away from their torture and is running for President of the United States. He won, even when our politicians were busy losing. He won his war, and your sneering at him doesn’t change that. He’s a better man than Obama will ever be, if for no other reason than that. And yes, surviving a prison camp DOES get him points on the political scale with me. He has character, whatever his many flaws, and is strong and courageous. He deserves our respect, even if we don’t vote for him, and I find your sneering at his service unendurable. If you’d been in the same room when I read your snotty little remark, I probaby would have bounced something off your head. — “Steph”

By Election Day, I expect the most enthusiastic response of all will be for “Please, God, make it stop!”

Ah, hell. I’ve learned something new here — when you bump a post by more than a day, it changes the URL in WordPress. Until I learn how to set up a redirect, click here to go to the most up to date version.

Stolen bodily from Nick Douglas.

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