Rodent Regatta

This is the final test in this sequence.

This is yet another attempt to uncover the recent difficulties when posting new articles to the web site. To all my readers, I apologize for having to expose these tests to you, but the nature of the problem doesn’t lend itself to offline work. This should be over relatively soon.

The computer now shows 4:09am.

The weblog is still in debugging mode.

Data about how this posts to the website will then be noted and posted in the Textpattern support forum.

It’s 4:02am as shown by the time on my computer.

This weblog is in debugging mode.

I’m going to post this article, check its placement on the home page and immediately post another test article. The goal of these tests is to uncover some coding problem that is causing the most recent articles to post out of sequence on the home page.

EDIT: This is a simple addition to the original article to see if it properly updates on the home page.

Some political issues never captured my attention as the most important thing that government should be about. Abortion is an example. Clearly, given two (theoretically) identical candidates—something impossible—I might use their respective stances on abortion as a deciding factor. However, long before I get to abortion or gay marriage or some other issues, I’ve made up my mind about most candidates.

With the USA targeted as it is right now by various people and countries, I find security high on my list of issues for testing candidates. Mike Hollihan has written well about last week’s October surprise in Tennessee politics. Political stunts are of little interest to me when we face such stultifyingly complex problems as control of nuclear knowledge, economic polarization and religious extremism.

However, in this one stunt, we get to see our candidates reacting to real, unscripted situations that tell us a great deal about the character of the men and how they respond when decisions must be made alone and on the spot.

In fact, they tell us enough to decide our vote!