A New Category

I have decided to create a new category to underscore Republican mischief in knowingly using either made up stats, or factually inaccurate data, to goad their stupid electorate into following them to the brink of disaster and beyond. The new category/label is going to be named "M.O.E.", which does not stand for "margin of error", as the statistically savvy among you might have logically guessed, but for "margin of evil", which is the threshold of inaccuracy that no disreputable Republican fears to trespass in his/her pursuit of unfettered personal or corporate power.

So welcome, "M.O.E. (margin of evil)", our newest labeling category.

On Comment Moderation

In case you are wondering why the comment feature is moderated: I turned the comment moderation feature because, right after I enabled it, spammers used the comment feature to litter the blog with commercial links that had nothing to do with the posts. I assure you that censorship is not the reason, in case you were wondering.

All ideas are welcome, and I am not afraid of opposing viewpoints. Good ideas, and bad ideas are equally welcome. (Well, good ideas are more welcome but I trust that readers can judge for themselves if a comment stands up to scrutiny or if it is poorly reasoned and just a failed attempt at spin.)

Having said that, I reserve the right to censor comments that I find objectionable (but I have extremely permissive standards, so the likelihood I will find a comment objectionable is extremely low.)