My apologies for the spammed comments. They will be excised.
The blog as a whole will be tweaked in days to come. I plan to throw a few entries into the gap of the past few months — essays that I would have posted had I but the time and willpower. I'll mark them, don't worry. So watch for some election comments in November, for example.
I also plan to delete a few housekeeping posts, such as ... well ... this one. Now, let's get to the editing.