A reader advises (thanks, Libby) that comments have suddenly been closed on posts and that nobody can read ’em or make one. I wondered why it got so quiet out there all of a sudden.  I have no idea what the problem is — comments show as enabled in settings, and I even tried overriding in a couple individual posts, but so far no joy. I’ve opened a support ticket at Hostcentric, which is akin to sacrificing a black goat to the Interweb gods, but what the hell? It’s either that or start banging on things with a big fuckin’ hammer.