To its knees!

OK, that launch fizzled.

You know what's really annoying? I can't shake my fist towards the mysterious Blog Overlords and curse them for their incompetence, because we are the blog overlords. Dang. Freethoughtblogs.com is not holding up well under the morning traffic load. The tech slave is unconscious right now — he whimpered something about working all night and not getting any sleep over this thing — but once we stab him in the heart with a syringe full of adrenalin, and with a little hearty application of the whip, we'll bring it back up someday.

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