Just got the email. My short stint with AFF’s Brainwash is over. I can’t prove it to be the case, but I suspect my history of controversy and potty mouthedness had something to do with it. Not that I blame them. After all, not everybody has to be happy having their serious online political mag tied to a dude who once interviewed Jeff Gannon’s junk. Thankfully, you all still love

From The WSJ, “Verizon Wireless Bars Abortion-Rights Group’s Texting”: Verizon Wireless is refusing to carry text messages from a prominent abortion-rights group, citing its internal restrictions on content that is “highly controversial,” the carrier said. Naral Pro-Choice America requested that Verizon Wireless and other carriers distribute its text messages that users sign up for by sending a message to a five- or six-digit number called a “short code.” The program

And though it’s quite possible that an actual open thread could look exactly like this one — down to the last bit of punctuation, even — that wouldn’t change this post’s ontology one bit. All of which puts me in mind of Jeremy Irons and David Cronenberg. And intentionalism. Discuss. — Or if the topic doesn’t interest you, discuss something else. I’m easy that way, and besides, I have a