A quick note about this site

Lighten up feature, some freshening up

Hey Y’all! (Or All Y’all, if you’re being strict on southern grammar.)

I just want to tell you about a few changes that flew off the mountain like a rockslide and hit me in the head. First, we got a guest post from our new friend Neal Pollack, a.k.a. The Greatest Living American Writer. Now in case you need to be told, this post is S.A.T.I.R.E., as in, it’s not really written by someone who beat Benjamin Netanyahu at tennis (though it’s plausible, isn’t it?).

But as it happens with all half-baked crackpot last-minute plans (wait a minute, if they fit all those adjectives, should I even call them “plans”?), I didn’t think it through all the way, so Neal hit “publish” before I had a chance to properly introduce him. And in that introduction, I thought it would be a good idea to inaugurate a new section for this site, which I decided to call “Lighten Up!” And of course, I hadn’t run any of that through our Executive Committee—David and Jay. But now the camel’s nose was in the tent so things just kind of happened.

I got the “Lighten Up” section going and then realized our logo and site graphics were a bit flat. They were indeed flat. So I did a bit of a punch-up of the graphics. If you’re a bona-fide graphics designer, feel free to tell me how bad it is, and I’m open to whatever you want to donate to this site—meaning I have no budget to pay for graphics.

There will be plenty of content in the “Lighten Up!” section because David posts a lot of humorous cartoons and memes and such on our social media accounts. Now if you subscribe to this site, you’ll get to see those here too, without dragging yourself through Andy Dufresne’s escape route from Shawshank Prison, as in what happens when you actually go to social media and read what’s there.

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