[tar-ancalime]

You know, I didn't have a problem with Kath at all until her recent post that includes her vote. But she's really grasping at straws to defend herself:

In her analysis of spawn she brings up spawn's comment that Ang didn't trust Eomer. I thought "Oh goody! Did she find something I missed on Eomer?" So I went back and looked at spawn's post, and there was nothing really there. Just the two references to Eomer that we talked about yesterday.

What bothered me most about Eomer was not Ang's two references to him, but the way he deliberately ignored the second and stronger one (in which he's linked to lmp) and deliberately called attention to the first and weaker one (in which he's linked with Kath), thus hoping to link himself to early, humorous accusations only. Granted, neither of Ang's comments on Eomer is particularly strong, but it bothered me then and it bothers me now that he ignores the second one in favor of the obviously humorous first.

Ang's comments are moot, as he is dead and not a Seer, but Eomer's reaction to them is not. Likewise, Kath's redrawing of attention to these two Eomer comments (knowing full well that they're far back in a long thread and those who haven't already started what may be an irrational suspicion of Eomer aren't likely to go back and check) looks a little squidgy to me, to say the least.

I still hold suspicion for Farael, the more so now that he has started to nurse what looks like a grudge against tgwbs. It can't look any other way--Farael largely ignores tgwbs in his pursuit of Kath, then when tgwbs starts to turn on Farael, well, the claws come out, so to speak.

But for today, anyway, my suspicions of Eomer and Farael are going to have to take a back seat to the main event:

To double lynch or not to double lynch?

Let's remember this: if we double lynch once, it doesn't mean we're going to have to continue to do it every day. tgwbs's plan would essentially have required that, as it would force us into a race with the wolves, and relenting on the double lynches of men would have erased our advantage. But double lynches in general don't have to play out this way.

Naysayers who bring up endgame statistics in reference to double lynches at this point in the game forget that it's not a tool we have to use every day.

For today, though, I think it makes sense. There are a lot of villagers whose names have hardly been mentioned. We need to clear the air, to get some fresh discussions going, and to do that we've got to rid ourselves of guaranteed lynch candidates.

With that in mind,

++Kath

to keep the possibility of a double lynch alive.