Just a quick update here everybody: A few of you have noticed that I made commenting a little more difficult by requiring an account. My apologies for the extra step, but it unfortunately became necessary after some less-than-pleasant comments earlier this semester. I haven’t had a lot of time to think about the blog this semester anyway, but do know that I appreciate your (constructive) comments and I don’t want the conversation/feedback to end because of the sign-in requirement. So, I’m going back to the open commenting that was in place before, with the exception that initial commenters will have to have their first comment approved before future posts are automatically posted.

This may not mean much of anything to any of you, but suffice it say that we’re going to try the old way of doing things again.