A confession

Having seen a new set of references to the Madrid bombings as "3/11" (e.g. Andrew Sullivan, Wall Street Journal), we were about to dig up our post from last year which saw this as indicative of forcing world events through the Global War on Terror spectacles, since the correct date format for that tragic day is 11-M. But the good people at Sullywatch were ahead of us in locating their and our old posts on this.

And in adding the link to us, SW notes:

gotta love that timestamp for that post!

Yes, the post shows a stamp of 3.11 AM. This timestamp, it turns out, will be the incidental event, like Jeff Gannon's preposterous "question" to Dubya, that brings one of our dark secrets crashing into the open. For, although doing 97.3 percent of our blogging from the USA's eastern seaboard, we have Blogger set the timestamp to GMT. You should view this as exactly covered by Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith's explanation of why he carries around a cricket bat -- that it's an affectation. Or as Ian might also say, a totemistic refence to the passage of time in the homeland.

One final thought on this matter for a lazy Friday afternoon/evening. This makes for at least one thing we have in common with Andrew Sullivan. Because as Sullywatch has observed a few times, Sully also has the blogger timestamp set ahead -- it's usually 1 hour but we're convinced we once saw it 1.5 hours ahead. Which means that, for some reason, he's making totemistic references to Newfoundland.