I screwed something up in my comments — I think — because I tried to change the form so that “Remember info” was the default. Something went wonky, and I replaced the comment form with the original one…but now I’m not receiving any copies of comments made in e-mail. Color me upset (mostly because spammers have hit my site and are burying their shit in my older entries).

So you’ve all heard about Fox News’s incredibly stupid lawsuit against Al Franken because of the title of his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right—which is now #1 on Amazon largely because of the publicity this lawsuit has created. Way to go Fox, extremely fair and balanced of you.

And Blah3 is fighting the good fight and keeping a list of all blogs that have gone “fair and balanced”; make Blah3’s day, join the party.

So I changed the code for Nobody Knows Anything’s subtitle from a collection of strange little taglines grouped solely according to my whim to a collection of taglines grouped solely because they contain the words “fair and balanced.”

And now my blog’s acting weird.

The right-hand column—which evidently already has problems in Mozilla and no, I haven’t fixed it yet—now doesn’t load when I open my page. The loading bar in Safari goes about halfway across…and then just hangs.

Any ideas why?

Here, by the way, is the randomization code I use for the subtitle, in case a)the answer’s there or b)you want something similar. I got the code off of the Movable Type’s board originally.

<script LANGUAGE = "JavaScript"> 
<!-- 

function makeArrayText(len) { 
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null; 
this.length = len; 
}

ran_text = new makeArrayText(5); 
// be sure to set makearray(n) = number of items to be 
included in the array, and start at zero! 
ran_text[0] = 'Fair and balanced, baby. Fair and balanced.';
ran_text[1] = 'You ain\'t seen fair and balanced
 \'til you\'ve read NKA.';
ran_text[2] = 'Fair and balanced since <i>at least</i> 1996.';
ran_text[3] = 'Fair <i>and</i> balanced twice a day, 
like clockwork.';
ran_text[4] = 'Except how fair and balanced my blog is.';

function rand(n) { 
seed = (0x015a4e35 * seed) % 0x7fffffff; 
return (seed >> 16) % n; 
}

var now = new Date() 
var seed = now.getTime() % 0xffffffff 

// --> 
</SCRIPT> 

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript"> 
<!-- 
document.write(ran_text[rand(ran_text.length)]) 
//--> 
</SCRIPT>

(I’ve slightly edited the text—inserting line breaks after “number of items to be”, “You ain\’t seen fair and balanced,” and “twice a day”—to make it fit on the page. Those breaks are not causing this problem!)

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The funniest comment I read somewhere about this lawsuit: “If Fox News can sue Al Franken over use of the term ‘fair and balanced,’ does that mean the American people can sue Fox News over use of the term ‘News’?”

And I can’t remember who said it! If you know, drop me a line.

Evidently someone found my site by searching Google for “Arianna Huffington nude pics.” You can try it yourself: there I am, first entry.

Verrrrry interestink. But stupid.*

*C’mon, who said it?