An open letter to Wikipedia users re: permalinks

[Re-surfacing quickly to point out something that gets overlooked all the freakin' time.]
Dear Professor Lessig et al.,
I read your comments in the New York Times article “Courts Turn to Wikipedia, but Selectively” with great interest. However, I believe you may have overlooked something.
If you would like to cite a specific revision of an article [...]

Minor asides

Yes, we still have power. The ice storm hasn’t been nearly as bad here as they were predicting, so the worst we’ve had so far was a tiny layer (maybe 5 mm) on tree limbs and cars. There’s a bit more on the way tonight, though, and in any case it’s nice to [...]

Yes, I know it has been a long time.

So I’m picking up where I left off.
McCaskill won in Missouri, Jon Tester won in Montana, and Jim Webb won in Virginia. The Democrats won a majority in both houses. w00t.
The weekend before election day, as promised:

Saturday night we attended the St. Louis HRC Gala at the Chase Park Plaza. It was [...]