Programming note
I'm leaving for Jamaica for a week on Tuesday morning, and I've got about 10 kajillion things to get done between now and then. The upshot is that I probably won't be blogging much for the next couple of days, and probably none at all for the following week. I know it'll be hard to cope without the partcular brand of half-assed news analysis you've become accustomed to here at CN, but it's been a fairly quiet time anyway, so hopefully we'll all survive. See you when I get back!
PS -- I was cleaning up some spam this morning and I may have inadvertently deleted one or two readers' comments from this site. If this happened to you, I apologize. It was unintentional.