Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted had installed an untested, unapproved software patch for ballot counting just a week before the election. When various groups protested to the courts, Husted responded that the software patch ran outside of the federally-approved voting machinery. Therefore, it did not need testing and did not to be reviewed by the state election commission. The courts went along with him.

A few days later, the international hacker group Anonymous released a video. In it Anonymous warned that they were monitoring all the computers of Fox News analyst and Republican chief fundraiser Karl Rove. Anonymous warned Rove personally to not interfere with the election results.

Interesting, on election night, when the Ohio computers came back online, the vote tallying went on without the patch, and Obama won.

This whole thing might mean that the patch should be subpoenaed into court and examined for its potential to rig an election--especially since no one dared to complain that it did not work. And the counting kept on going, anyway, unquestioned. But that's not all.

Anonymous claims that Mitt Romney's Orca program was a fake, also. It was not meant to be used as a get-out-the-vote program as stated by the Romney campaign. Rather, it was meant to be used to divert and flip flop the vote in two other states, Florida and Virginia. Like Ohio, both states have Republican Secretaries of state who resolve voting issues. Makes you wonder, right? But there is more.

Why did you inflict this upon me?  I did not deserve this.  While you and I are not regularly in agreement, I can usually respect you.  The social conservative movement is loony toons.

General Boykin, former commander of the US Army Special Forces, former  deputy director of the CIA, and a former deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, has received attention for some of his eccentric characterizations, such when in a speech that referred to a Muslin fighter's Allah countered that his (God) was bigger than his.  

Pat Robertson,  who may be considered a general nuisance, notes that we should not condemn Petraeus for his adultery because  "Paula Broadwell is an extremely good looking woman and he is a man."  

I can't believe the writers of Boardwalk Empire just killed Owen off like that.  Those people!  Who do they think they are?

Given that the local school and law enforcement authorities were apparently made aware of the alleged assault contemporaneously to the time of the Sept. 27 incident, why does it take a lawsuit by the parents in order to compel those same authorities to finally bring this sort of pseudo-sanctioned brutality to an end?

Author Tom Wolfe heads this year's list of distinguished nominees, thanks to the following bit of literary excess: "[The] flood in her loins washed morals, despair and all other abstract assessments away in a cloud of some sort of divine cologne of his."

The entire situation sucks, but you will never guess who Governor Nikki Haley is blaming:

Haley on Tuesday blamed the federal government for not requiring Social Security numbers to be encrypted. She released a letter to IRS Commissioner Steven Miller "to strongly encourage the Internal Revenue Service to require all states to have stronger security measures for handling federal tax information, particularly encryption of tax information that is stored or `at rest.'"