. . . I posted this manually. It seems the problem is, the archive pages of the posts are getting published, but not the index page. As Robot Wisdom and our own prolific Uncle $cam have told us: Rigorous Intuition has also experienced this problem. A temporary workaround for those with their own hosts: go into Template on blogger, click Preview, view html and copy, save as index.htm or whatever you name your original index, then upload manually via ftp. This way everyone can still post and I can update manually.
Blogger has been mostly dependable for the 6 years I have been using it. Naturally this latest near-week long total breakdown is troubling, and the longest it has been down in my experience. More troubling is that there is no customer support whatsoever. I was willing to pay for the service--and I paid for Blogger Pro--and all I got for that was a lousy sweatshirt. Surely Google can hire a bigger staff? While I had assumed, like all times previously, that it would be back up and running within 24 hours, this obviously isn't the case, and no one has returned my email. And now they're saying that this blog has "characteristics of a spam blog?"
Until it's resolved, or I have to fumble with Wordpress, I'll manually update with all your posts at least once a day.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."