You may notice that our Amazon ads on the left are not loading. We are experiencing Internet difficulties with some sites over here. I can access some sites only through a proxy server, some not at all. I have checked with others across the country and they are experiencing similar outages. This must be a DNS outage or an edge router problem. Thank you for your patience.













Amazon ads have never worked for me, apparently because nearly all the computers on which I work have disabled “I-frames” as a security hazard. I’m not about to ask readers to expose their computers to security hazards…so we just have to regard Amazon’s promise to provide relevant ads and commissions on any purchases as one of those promises corporations never keep.