The server which takes orders via NRO for NR books may have been secure, but as of Friday afternoon it has been … melted. A fire at the building (I don’t know where it is) toasted the system (just the cables we hope), so, if you placed an order for an NR book — including the autographed copy of WFB’s Miles Gone By — Friday (Sept. 17) noon and since, send me an email jfowler@nationalreview.com and our crack staff here will check to see if your order made it through the flames, or if we need to go through this again (we can easily take orders over the telephone until the system is replaced — by the way the number is 1-212-679-7330, ask for Russell Jenkins or Kevin Longstreet). And now, back to America’s truly hottest spot, The Corner.