Suppose as some have speculated al-Megrahi’s lawyers were about to obtain on appeal some intelligence and law enforcement documents revealing doubts about Libya’s centrality in the Flight 103 outrage.

Perhaps this is a most inopportune time to have the spotlight shift from wacky, isolated Libya to Iran and a Palestinian terror faction. Engagement, you know, and Israel-Palestine peace process prizes to protect.

A deal to turn over al-Magrahi would be too hot to handle for US or UK top levels, but let’s put this Scotland sovereignty thing to good use, eh? You know how independent those crusty Scots can be.

So there is a bit of a blowup during holiday month, all for a greater cause, right?

I write to communicate and if I used “enraptured” that way no one I know would know what I was talking about.

A difference between the forces of status quo and enlightenment will always ebb and flow — there is no utopia to achieve, but only to more earnestly strive for.

As to grammar and spelling, I do my very best to try to get them right. However, one weird thing I notice I do when typing blog comments (and speaking of homophones) is that I frequently omit things when the word or sound ‘no’ comes into play. For instance, if I’m typing a sentence that contains the word ‘know’ I’ll look back and realize I just didn’t type it, just left it out. I do that with the word ‘no’ sometimes, too, giving the exact opposite meaning of what I intended. I think my brain hears the word ‘no’ in my thoughts as I’m typing along and takes that as a negation and just doesn’t type it. It’s weird.

One of my latest minor language pet peeves is seeing people misspell “toe the line” as “tow the line”, like we’re hauling boats around or something. And just today I read a comment where someone talked about something being in a different faze, instead of phase. I knew it was wrong the second I saw it but it took me a few seconds to come up with the right word.

As I understand it, compassionate release can be granted if the prisoner has less than three months to live. But “can” is not the same as “must”.

Charles Manson comes up regularly for parole regularly and it would be within the dictates of American law to release him, but so far they have not.

Sensitive? Sensitive?

Good God.