Apologies for the pirate snafu, which seems to be over. If you went to brendan-nyhan.com in the last two days, you saw one of my “Pirate Captain” posts instead of the regular homepage (that’s why Google is currently displaying an awesome banner ad for a pirate website in the left sidebar). I still have no idea what happened but Typepad seems to have fixed the problem. Anyway, if you missed any posts while things were screwed up, please read down from here.