They've been decreasing anomalously for a while now. Obvious sign of this is unexpectedly mild summers. This could be another facet. Makes me worried about whenever the sunspots return to their normal rhythm.

By the end of the year, you'll be able to spot a bot merely by the fact that it has an awareness of such an unimportant footnote in history.

What a relief that the hacker "found nothing incriminating". I had been reading some worrying things about the email being used for both personal and governmental business. Glad this nonpartisan article cleared that up. Also glad it turns out that Palin actually did not give an introductory speech to the Alaska Independence Group in 2008. And that she had always, always opposed the Bridge To Nowhere and is not a flip-flopper. And that she's never abused her power to get people fired. And that those funny photos showing her not pregnant while her daughter was.. were taken of some lookalike family, not hers. So glad the GOP has finally found somebody without a trace of corruption or lies.