THE SCOOP ON JOSH MARSHALL'S CHARACTER PROBLEM: I realize that this is pretty small beer in a world beset by real problems, like poverty, disease, terror, hunger, missing white women, and the films of Michael Bay, but, when I finally got around to registering over at Josh Marshall's TPMCafe this morning, I was a little disappointed to find that Scoop (the well-regarded open source software that powers the Cafe) still spits out an illegal character warning if you try to include an apostrophe in a username. C'mon, Scoopsters -- if Josh can post as Josh Marshall (as opposed to, say, Joh Marhall, or Josh Mrshll), I should be able to post as Jack O'Toole. Simple as that. Right?

PS: Yes, I know. I've seen how TPMCafe passes its "diary" URLs, and it will almost certainly take more than a simple update to the allowed characters list to make apostrophes legal. Still, most content management systems eventually solve this problem. So, uh, why not now, Scoop? You'll have the undying gratitude of O'Briens, O'Learys, O'Sullivans, and, yes, O'Tooles, the world over.