...you won't see any new material from me because this one is now dead. I see that I have thousands of subscribers who use Google Reader, and none of you have seen any of the material I've published in the last three weeks. It looks like I've been dormant, but you've missed lots of good stuff, including an interview with Christopher Hitchens.
You can point your RSS reader here and get caught up.
I recently upgraded my publishing software from Movable Type to Wordpress, so if you've been reading my site with an RSS feed, you will need to change it to this one.