This blog has been discontinued temporarily largely because of the boorishness that prevails on this site. With all the admonishments that exist in the Terms of Service regarding conduct of users, violations routinely take place and outright maliciousness prevails. Until the day comes that users show some respect, there is no reason to resume the blog.

I just created a blog on JoeUser.com, which is not my first, but I find that reading audiences don't take well to shifts in focus; it's often necessary to maintain separate blogs for separate interests. I have another blog Link that I devoted more to journalistic efforts, and that one I created largely because the publication for which I was writing seemed not to be publishing to the Web as originally planned. I can see from the counter that people are viewing the blog, but that's about as f...