A long post filled with random boring stuff

Weird things are gong on around here.  I thought I had put the post below in the can to be published early Friday morning while I was traveling to the extremes of the Hoosier State. For some reason it did not publish.  I finally put it up manually yesterday afternoon. Some of its hard hitting impact was lost, n'est pas?

I have been getting some rather bizarre spam lately. Along with the Chinese stuff, I am getting this kind of brilliant analysis:

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