All posts – as by further reasonable extension all articles, essays, treatises, books, Facebook updates, multimedia Snapchat ephemera, and retweeted links to images of the more photogenic galaxies – are commentary by other means
Old-timers at this blog may mourn the passing of “The Wall,” but the same functions, and the at last count 2,510 comments since the last major move, are still accessible under the new “Open Thread” tab.
…a blogger need only add a teensy bit of code by one of several different simple methods, and posts will automatically (by Javascript) display Cent-Up’s monetary “Like.” As for readers, after a one-time sign-up, they will be able to put their money where their eyeballs are, as little as a few cents at a time, by clicking the button wherever it appears on whoever’s site it turns up for them. Cent-Up collects the proceeds, takes 10%, and divides the rest 50-50 between the author and one of (as of this writing) “seven great charities” serving “public radio, art for people with disabilities, music education, fighting sex trafficking, breast cancer, education access, and helping impoverished women.”
…should further hack Twitter Digest to make rendering of full conversations doable… should by that means or perhaps by Storify render group twitter discussion this AM (PST) on Israel and state/sovereignty following “When The Hell That Is War Loses Its…
Since my stepmother Eydie passed away earlier last month, after a long illness, I have been increasingly focused on my Dad’s situation. Today, I’ll be helping to move him into an assisted living facility. As I was just noting on…
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