re: No plague on either house?
While I could not read the story (am not and will not register), the "paste together" that your rightist blog does seems to be trying to make a mountain out of a speed bump. Dunno, since I can't read it all, but if thats their big red-hot "GOTCHA!!" (the 'ouch! well anyway' statement makes it sound like they think it is), then I'm not very put-off of believing Clarke.
Davin L.
