Which is more embarrassing, -- attributing dark satanic mills to milton instead of blake, or then, in my acknowledgment of my own error, calling him robert blake?

It might be time to call it a day.

whoops, thanks for catching the mistake on the exchange rate. i will fix.

Argh. I was confused by that momentarily. Should have checked closer. I'll fix that too.

I've visited Shanghai twice, though not for awhile.

Thankfully, typhoon Wipha made landfall south of Shanghai, so we don't get to find out, this time, what happens when a monster typhoon directly hits a coastal city of 18 million.

I should have linked that assertion about 50 percent of U.S. lumber from Canada to its source, which, admittedly, was a Canadian newspaper article that could justifiably be accused of bias. thanks for the additional info.

I was also struck by those emoticons, but decided that they needed to be dealt with in a second post, because they are either proof that China's Internet population has been taken over by aliens, or signs pointing to the way to some deeper mystery.

I'm going to ask Salon to allow HTWW readers to use similar emoticons.

in a post that short I could spell every word correctly. but no.

Duly noted! And I've updated the post to reflect that...

Anybody who has been following my coverage of Countrywide and Mozilo knows that I was not using "some would say" to hide anything. Puh-leez.

I don't have many rules about posting etiquette, but that's one of them. No one calls me "Andy."

you were making a reasonable contribution here until you started asking questions like "are you retarded?" that's an unacceptable level of discourse in my view, and I won't hesitate to unpublish your comments if it keeps up.

and for what it's worth, the AAP definitely has money to lobby, or they wouldn't have been able to hire Eric Dezenhall to help them craft their absurd PRISM campaign.

corrected. thx.

actually christianity is mentioned in the paper, and it is one of the factors that tempers son preference. but the most dramatic change in sex ratios has occurred since 1991...

The France comment was partly a joke, playing off the antipathy directed at France because of their position on the Iraq invasion, but also a more obscure reference to their old online system Minitel, which used to be trashed by free marketers in the U.S. as an example of the kind of slow, outmoded service that state-mandated technology delivered...

I guess I might have assumed too much background knowledge...

sorry, i really didn't mean to be condescending. i just meant to deprecate my own attempt at a joke, because really, aside from my French readers, who in the world was going to get a in implied ironic dig at Minitel? it was badly executed.

you're right, recycling right-wing tropes isn't brilliant wit.

man.

yet another truly cringe-worthy error.

i'll fix.

what a find! thanks leslie. of course, that appears to be a recipe for making small salt-stick rolls, and not the GIANT saltstick, but one must start somewhere!

PS 183 was the elementary school I went to from kindergarten through 3rd grade Randall. I'm pretty near positive PS 190 on 82nds street between first and second was where I went to fourth-sixth.

This New York Times article,

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2D61F3AF930A15754C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

describes a PS 190 on 82nd street, as of 1989...

fixed

a little allergy medicine and everything cleared up...

you're not the only suggesting I misinterpreted the significance of the World Bank Loan. I've added a update to the post and changed the headline slightly.

there appears to be conflicting info on the Web on where ACE is domiciled, but since the company's own Web site nows says Bermuda, I made the fix.

thanks for pointing that out. i did wonder at the lack of explicit content referencing Paul. I've added a note to the post

thanks for catching that, scorpio

must have been the crowds of voters in New Hampshire that distracted me.

Embarassing.

Not only am I familiar with The Baroque cycle (I reviewed each of the three volumes for Salon)...

http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/books/2003/09/24/quicksilver/

http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2004/04/21/confusion/

http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/books/2004/09/22/system/

...but as I was researching this topic I kept thinking to myself, this seems like it could be a chapter right out of Stephenson's epic, and I _even_ recalled the section that takes place at an Indian mine but I didn't connect the dots and realize that the steel being smelted in Stephenson was wootz.

Ah well.

thanks for the info dcmserver -- in one of the articles I link to, a critic of the Paufler thesis, Verhoeven, makes the same case as you do about the likelihood that carbon nanotubes would be in most steel swords.

One of our servers appears to be misbehaving today, possibly because of umpteen-billion people reading Camille Paglia. Thanks for the heads up, Sound & Fury.

For anyone who was confused earlier, in my initial headline I inadvertently wrote "regulation" instead of "deregulation" in the phrase "radical economic deregulation."

I think most of you understood it anyway, but I regret causing the mixup.

for providing more info on the dates of Clinton's surgery and the bill vote. i should have done more fact-checking of my own, and upon reflection, I do think, even though Bill had a procedure the day of the vote, that Hillary's absence has ambiguous aspects. Credit Slips is right, the only one who comes out looking unimpeachable on this topic is Obama.

Thanks.

Some people are so picky.

I regret the error!

once you get past two, I can't keep count.