About a year or two ago there was a caching problem here with the comments. Lately there’s been another cache problem connected with comments. This time the autofill for comments wasn’t working—a fact which some of you have noticed and … Continue reading →
Trolls come in many shapes and sizes: concern trolls, flamers, and goalpost movers, just to mention a few. But there’s another kind of troll who comes to blogs on the right now and then, and we had a recent visit … Continue reading →
Ace has a fascinating piece about the decisions bloggers and other pundits on the right have had to make in the era of Trump. Fascinating to me, anyway. He writes: Some time ago I faced the choice of doing an … Continue reading →
Just want to let you all know that I have succeeded in finding a web developer who will help me make the transfer. I’ll skip the lengthy saga of how hard it was to find such a person, and just … Continue reading →
I’m always interested in the spam cycles on the blog—which I assume merely reflect the spam cycles on WordPress and its anti-spam plugins. By “spam-cycles” I don’t mean anything to do with email, I’m taking about the bots (or whatever … Continue reading →
About two years ago I wrote a post about how many blog post drafts I was hoarding. Post-hoarding is a strange phenomenon I seem prone to, and this was my description back then: I didn’t see this coming – it … Continue reading →
…that I’ve already written close to 1/3 the number of posts about Trump than I’ve written about Obama, although Trump’s only been president approximately 15% as long as Obama was. I think that’s right; I had to do the math … Continue reading →
Get on with it already!!, you may be thinking. But after the Big Crash of this site a few days ago—which remains undiagnosed, but which everyone is virtually 100% sure had nothing to do with my efforts at creating a … Continue reading →
…I’ve reactivated the comment edit function, which had somehow gotten lost in the crash. Let me know whether anything else here isn’t working properly for you (or anything at the new site, for that matter). One person said that the … Continue reading →
…that at the moment I can post. At the moment. I haven’t heard yet this morning from the people at my host who’ve been hard at work on fixing the problem, so I don’t know whether this is a temporary … Continue reading →
[BUMPED UP: Please scroll down for today’s new posts. I’ll bump this up through the weekend, and then retire it.] Of course, you can donate any time, but twice a year I make a special plea, and I hope you’ll … Continue reading →
So, where’s that new blog format I promised? I realize most of you have not been sitting on a hot stove waiting, but you might be wondering. It may come as no surprise that I hit a little snag when … Continue reading →