The Day the Earth Stood Still

or, Dude, Where's my Delatacit?

I guess it was around 8:30 last night. I was just reading a riveting post in the comments section of Delatacit, and comparing it to a similar comment on Al Mascitti's blog. The much-derided poll that the Lee campaign took which shows them within 6 points of the Governor in an increasingly two-person race has been proven incorrect by a poll that the Minner campaign has run. It appears that the race is closer than that - Ruth Ann has it a 5 points. Shocking numbers if you are a Minner fan. The Lee campaign hasn't had any mass mailings, radio ads, or television since the primary election - Minner is running ads around the clock.

I was preparing a glorious comment to lay on the readers of Delatacit explaining all of that, when the internet went quiet.

Delatacit was gone.

When I was seven, I had a tropical fish, an Oscar cleverly named Oscar. He was a compromise between a boy who wanted a pony and a father who didn't want a shovel. He died after about six months, something about tapping on the glass.

It's a similar loss.

Almost as though the rest of Delaware's internet community felt the same heartache, they remained quiet. Mascitti added nothing, Blogolution spoke about Delatacit in respectfully snarky tones, even Delaforum was silent - for about thirty seconds.

From my crack investigation staff (me), it appears Delatacit was upgrading their system, and require an indexing file to get back on line. If I could rip my own indexing file out and give it to them, I would. But I'm told that's not how the internet works.

Come back, Delatacit. I want to read comments about the lack of civil discourse in the Insurance Commisioner race peppered with F-bombs. I want to find out who was slashing tires. But most of all, I want to find out what you think about the Governor slipping so quickly in the polls that she's skipping out of scheduled debates.

UPDATE: It would appear I'm not as clever as I believe, though I'm sure that's no shock to anyone reading. Larrimore and Flynn, of WILM posted this beauty to mark this same solemn occasion, with the title "Dude, Where's My Delatacit?" I could claim we independently parodied the movie title, but I honestly just forgot seeing it. In the words of TV's Hank Hill, "I'm so honest, while playing football for Arlen High I once called a penalty on myself for illegal motion."