Against The Grain

Technical Note My usual commenting system ("Backblog") seems to be down and unaccounted for. Have switched to Haloscan, in spite of Mark Shea's humorous notes regarding it's penchant for drunken binges. I see that they've relocated to new servers and perhaps for that reason they'll be less prone to technical failure. Anyway, I'm giving them a try. My most sincere apologies to those readers who have left comments to various posts using the old system -- I only regret that I cannot import them.