Special alert!

We at State Controlled media have learned that two of your contributing editors have been sequestered and are unlikely to produce anything of value to the blog for the next week (there are some that would question if they ever produce anything of value anyway). They managed to sneak a message to the Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor telling of their dire situation...and one small request. So in honor of our captive hostages (to some guy named Max???) we are fulfilling the request (though we don't know why). Here it isYou have our permission to look away...