Following a string of obsessions by Ron Rosenbaum covering the topics of President Obama, Iran (lately as interfered with by the MJ story).

Following Rogue Cancer Unit at a VA hospital (57 comments now). Ann, in a comment at the end just nails the issue.

"It's always darkest just before it goes pitch-black," Tom Maguire says.

Miss prints has a royal history. From Stalin and His Hangmen, 'misprints had been disingenuously used to annoy authority. Queen Victoria was reported to have "pissed" over Waterloo Bridge. Substituting one consonant made Stalin "pisser" or "shitter" (ssalin, sralin). Stalingrad coould be set to read "Stalin is a reptile" (Stalin gad). Under Stalin, misprints were declared "sorties by the class enemy." Writers or typesetters could die for one misplaced letter, as Andrei Tarkovsjy's film Mirror unforgettably suggests.' This came up in Obama 'confronting a delicate topic.'

Following what might be called 'A Variation on a Black Mass.'

That speech and the reaction might be worth quite a bit in blood and treasure. Was just reading 'Stalin and his Hangmen.' If the last Nicholas could have given such a speech at his coronation, Russia wouldn't have suffered so.