Much Ado about Not Much of Anything 0

Were it not for the sinister tones of the news coverage, including a shockingly ignorant editorial in my own local rag, I would find the kerfuffle over the rumored (remember, there is at yet no proof other than a grossly misinterpreted whois output) Clinton home server amusing in a “how can the press be so stupidly ignorant” sort of way.

(As an aside, the law she was alleged to have violated came into effect well after she left the State Department, so there was ipso facto no violation of the law. I don’t expect reporters to necessarily understand computers, but I do expect them to understand much older technologies, such as, say, for example, calendars. Given this, it is difficult not to see this story as a simple smear job.)

In my Linux world, it is not unusual for persons to run their own home email servers. I don’t, because my ISP forbids public-facing servers, but, ISP TOS aside, it’s hardly an indication of anything improper. All an email server does is send and receive email; there’s no man behind the curtain to pay no attention to.

This fuss is classic witch hunt, an angry mob of stupid and ignorant persons carrying torches and pitchforks railing against something that they do not understand and which may or may not have happened, but, by heavens, she’s a witch drown her then burn her at the stake!

As my two or three long time readers know, I am not a Clinton fan. But, really, honest to Pete . . . .