Hoo Boy

The discussion on Range Voting may have set a new record for the most number of comments on any of my postings. (I'd have to go looking through the archives to be sure; I know there were some whoppers last year.)

In case anyone wonders why some messages seem a little out of sequence or stuff appears asynchronously if they go and look again, it's because at least one of the posters doesn't have an LJ account, but is (mostly) signing his messages. I screen anonymous comments to keep out spammers and such. So sometimes there is going to be some delay until the next time I get around to clearing queued-up pending messages.

Dinosaur Biplanes

Cheryl passed this one on to me:

Dinosaur beat Wright brothers by 125m years

He Really Doesn't Get It

Assuming you tuned out The Great Debate a while ago -- I get all of the messages, of course -- this quote may well sum up the communication gulf:

Whether voters trust it or not has nothing to do with whether it is actually the best voting method.

I think he means it, too. Wow.