I’ve alluded to it here and there as something on the short-term horizon. It’s the newly designed site for The Complete Patient blog. That short-term horizon kept lengthening but alas, I’ll be pulling the switch tonight. (I won’t be doing it, the very patient development team working on this will.) Hopefully, there won’t be any short circuits or explosions or such.
One of the huge challenges has been moving five years worth of content from one platform to another. The new site should be up to date on all the content accumulated here. But for today, I’d suggest refraining from comments or, if you do comment, keeping a copy of your comment, in case it doesn’t make it as part of the transition going on today and tonight.
Hopefully the new site will be a significant improvement. I’ll talk more about the advantages in a post on the new site tonight. But just as a preview, the new site will do a nicer job of highlighting comments, and also give users more options for subscribing to posts and comments, and searching out content.
So I look forward to catching up from the new site. It will be at the same old address, so there’s no need for you to do anything differently in accessing it.
David
Congrats on the new website David! It sounds exciting.
I was just reading a very interesting 1964 article from Harper's magazine, on the "Paranoid Style in American Politics." The article was no doubt prompted by the birth of the modern conspiratorial right-wing in the 1950's, with McCarthyism and the John Birch Society, and then the Barry Goldwater campaign of 1964. But as it turns out the "paranoid style" goes back much further, and has had both left and right wing elements throughout American history and before that in European history.
I think we'd do well to keep this in mind with some of the paranoid rhetoric and movements circulating around the raw milk movement lately:
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/conspiracy_theory/the_paranoid_mentality/the_paranoid_style.html
http://www.thehealingjournal.com/node/1299
particularly good is the list of dairies in Washington State, so British Columbians can drive down and buy raw milk, then bring it back into Canada for personal use = perfectly legally