Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa!

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I am humbled and contrite. I have been forcing all of us to write comments in those crappy little comment pop-ups for a long time, and just tonight I saw it was an option! We are saved!

O felix culprit!

Comments

  1. Bob Murphy12:33 AM

    This is still pretty crappy.

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  2. gcallah7:42 AM

    But not as totally, totally crappy!

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  3. Sheldon Richman10:42 AM

    What do you mean optional? All I see is this little box. How am I supposed to think outside of that?

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  4. gcallah11:16 AM

    Yeah, the thing is the whole comment page came up in a little box before.

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  5. Anonymous1:00 AM

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