Dear friends, I know! I know! You want maps. I will try to post one later tonight! Right now I want to share a few things with you and ask a few questions. First, accessing Russian websites. I notice that in the US a lot of .ru and .su domains are blocked. Today I had to use a VPN to go through Israel to access a page in Russia (https://www.vesti.ru).
Dear friends, Thanks to the work of our webmaster Herb, we have now activated a new feature. We call it a “red flag” warning. Here is how this will work: If I see a comment which should not have been allowed (in my opinion) by the moderators (that is pretty rare) or if I see a comment which *technically* does not violate any rules, but which is either typical of
Dear friends, I have LOTS of news for you, all of them good. I am writing a detailed open letter to you, the readers, to inform you of the coming changes to how this blog operates and spelling out things which in the past I only alluded to or rarely mentioned. But I am also still tired, but off my antibiotics and better rested. Please give me a day or
