Take a breather ...

We are spending today working on a video project (!) for A-blog, so there may not be updates until late.  In addition, we're slogging thru a whole bunch of paper re: the La Vina decision for an upcoming post.  And Typepad, our provider, is making "improvements," which usually means "slowdowns" (for example, we can't get into the comments section today -- don't worry, complaints have been sent).   Bear with us!