The folks at CMR note that the same thing recently happened to many popular blogs that were opposed to Barak Obama’s candidacy. So while it’s possible this abusive behavior is caused by people within Google (remember, Google owns Blogger) it’s also possible people have figured out how to coordinate abuse of the Flag button on Blogger.

As with every other time things like this happen, I’m sure we’ll never really know what happened. All I can say is something smells rather ripe with all this…

Update: The Blogger folks say this was in fact a software error. If so, then a mea culpa for insinuating otherwise. At this point we’ll never entirely know for sure, but ’tis better to believe them for now methinks. Working in the software field I can empathize with bugs that are mistakes that just look intentional. We occasionally have bugs that make things work by accident when they shouldn’t – fixing those bugs always is an interesting experience. Anyway, back to blogging for all involved we hope!

I should also apologize to anyone who may have stumbled on this blog while I was in the midst of my gyrations of trying to get it all to work. There were some very trying times, and some downright ugly goof-ups in the process. Forgive me if you got caught up in one of them. So…should I keep the three columns or go back to the old template? Speak now or forever hold your peace…