This is by way of a test post. The "help" page says that there's supposed to be a link icon here, and I should be able to highlight text, click on the link, and get a window for the URL. But my page doesn't have a link icon. The "help" page says that may happen with older browsers, but Mozilla isn't all that bad in technical terms, and it doesn't show up in IE, either.

Just as a test, I want to see what will happen if I handcode a link:

Here's the URL for the index of AOIR blogs

Now if Blogger is set up so as to make the post in HTML, that should appear as a link, but if not, it will appear as code . . .

I read this morning about Rush Limbaugh's resignation from ESPN's football preview program (a step before they fired him). Apparently the main problem was his assertion that Donovan McNabb was receiving excessive praise because he was a black playing quarterback, a kind of affirmative action program.

Whatever you might think about affirmative action, it does not apply in sports competitions in areas like football, baseball, tennis, and so on: when you have to compete, either you measure up or you don't. (There's room for disagreement in "judgment" sports like boxing or gymnastics, where prejudice of some sort could show up.) McNabb was MVP one year and close for two others, if I remember correctly.

Sports programs should hire people who a) know the sport, and b) aren't public embarrassments. I'm not sure what Rush Limbaugh's area of expertise is, but it ain't sports.