Remember that scene from [1] Yellow Submarine? Sure you do.

Old Fred: Now whatever you do, don't touch that button!

Ringo: Which button?

Old Fred: That button.

Ringo: This button?
[presses the button and is ejected]

Ringo: Aaaahhhhh!

That's right. I touched the button. Yesterday afternoon I was doing what I thought was some routine maintenance on the site when I inadvertently...deleted the whole thing. I didn't know there was a button for that.

So I want to reiterate: there was no attack. This one was all my doing. I never claimed to be a techie, folks, and now you have all too vivid proof. And I apologize for being unable to post all day, as I was on the Laura Ingraham and Michael Medved shows today, as well as some others, and I'm sorry I wasn't able to give you notice. However, I think both replay, so you may be able to catch them.

Anyway, thanks to the heroic efforts of [2] Charles Johnson, we are mostly operational again. If the site still looks strange to you, please hit refresh. If it still looks strange after that, you and I have different tastes.

I still cannot access my director@jihadwatch.org email, and have no idea how long it will be down. This is a major hindrance, as you can see from all the "with thanks to..." tags on various posts. But I will put up a few things soon, and hope to be able to resume regular posting tomorrow.

And I promise never to touch that button again.