Ouch. We got hit with some massive downtime on the first day back from the long holiday weekend — a new server at a new host was just the fix we needed. Thanks to Dreamhost.com for helping getting us back to where we need to be. Comments will be reinstated soon, at least on a trial basis.
We appreciate your patience and look for a full day of posts to resume first thing tomorrow morning (at least, first thing here in California).
Hopefully things will run much, much smoother from here on out.