Semicolon lovers of the valley unite!

Who’ll be first to stand up a Vegas chapter of this punctiliously punctuating society?

Really? It’s working?

In related developments, AlterNet takes a second look at the now-famous Lancet study that seemed to fit the anti-war narrative Democrats wanted to follow. Looks like both liberals and conservatives overplayed or underplayed (depending on which side of the aisle you roam) the study’s veracity. What a shock.

Maybe the most frightening thing about the unfolding ricin scare is how the cops might have overlooked it the first time. Snip from today’s Review-Journal story:

On Tuesday, management at the hotel began eviction procedures and called Las Vegas police after discovering four firearms in the suite, the Homeland Security memo states.

Police then found an anarchist textbook that was “tabbed” to a section on ricin, Lombardo said.

That discovery prompted police investigators to test the room for the deadly substance. The test was negative.

On Thursday, a man who “claimed to be a relative” was in the suite and discovered several vials of ricin in a bag, along with castor beans from which the substance is derived, Suey said.

Unless the “discovery” by the purported relative wasn’t such a, uh, discovery. Meanwhile, there’s a crazy but nonetheless interesting conspiracy theory a-brewing over in the comments sections of the Sun’s blog update.