Testes, testes.

Is it rolling, Bob?

...Yes! As K. said, some little jerk tagged us a spam blog -- susanunpc cough cough -- so me and BT were denied access.

Anyhoo, what I wanted to say yesterday, in light of G's justly-lauded piece on the anthrax coverage, was...

This:

DOMESTIC ANTHRAX: I'm still not convinced there's domestic terrorism here. But if there is a domestic component, I predict that you'll find that the anthrax was provided by Al Qaeda operatives, but mailed by the locals. The far-right fringe that likes bin Laden (and yeah, there are a few, as I've reported before) is just about up to the task of mailing a letter without screwing it up. Though if they were choosing the targets, they would have been more likely to choose Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton over Tom Daschle and Pat Leahy.

and this:

THE "DOMESTIC TERROR ANTHRAX" theory is looking weaker in light of discoveries in Kabul. One plan was for weather balloons full of anthrax spores to be lofted above big cities, where they would either burst on their own or be shot down, releasing spores over a wide area. (I actually doubt this would work -- not a high enough concentration in any one area). But it clearly indicates that our major opponents were working on anthrax pretty hard. Occam's razor suggests that its appearance in the U.S. at the same time as a war with them is not a coincidence.

Hehindeedy!