I’m just passing through, looking for investigative material about Michele Bachmann, but can’t resist making a couple of comments.

re: #832 Shiplord Kirel

Cornell…was the longtime home of a certain professor Carl Sagan.

With respect, SK, afaic going from Professor Hans Bethe to Carl Sagan is, to put it very mildly indeed, not an improvement.
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Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Hopefully Frost is correct, but I fear that much of the change is due to different errors moving in and out of favor. As ignorant armies clash by night, one of the other stumbles into an advantage. I’d be delighted to have history prove me wrong. Perhaps my mood has been colored by the distasteful choice between “compassionate conservatism” and hopenchange.