OK, I just knocked-out 50 push-ups as a punishment for this. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the logging module. Apparently, the Mac OS X Term was messing this up while I was copying and pasting into Textmate. I ran the logs through `cut` as well as a custom line parser and it's working perfectly fine. I apologize for the confusion, but trust me that I actually blew a day and a half wrestling with this before I figured-out that it was an issue with the copying and pasting from Term.

On another note, it would be cool if we could set a default character for NULL/empty variables. For example, instead of the '-' character, I would prefer just an empty char to be written since I'm doing a TSV format. This way, I wouldn't have to preprocess the logs and strip-out the '-' when importing to a DB store, etc.