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I hope my readers had a good holiday season, and that your 2014 is better than 2013 was for you.  Unless you were heavily invested in the stock market, or German, 2013 was a generally lousy year for most people in the Western world.

In the new year I’ll be making some decisions about how much, and what, to blog in 2014.  The last few months of 2013 saw some major pieces on ideology, global warming and the history of our devolution to the semi-permanent crisis we’re in and the response to those articles was excellent, but they are a great deal of work.

On a personal level, 2013 was mostly about improving my health, and it’s quite a bit better than it was this time last year, so I’m grateful for that.

Take care of yourselves, and may the Fates be kind.

me, I’m eating duck, so Christmas is good.

A number of people have asked for an update on Stirling Newberry.

He’s doing somewhat better, he still has significant aphasia (difficulty finding words) and difficulty controlling his right and left arms.  His personality is definitely intact, and he will most likely moving out of the institution in the next month or so.  He should, with difficulty, be able to care for himself.

One can never say how well someone will recover from a stroke, but I am modestly optimistic that he will make a good recovery.

(One interesting side-note, the aphasia does not effect him when speaking Spanish.)

If you have any acquaintance with Stirling and want to get in touch with him, drop me a note.

You can listen in here either during or after.

Conversation will most likely center on these three posts:

Baseline Predictions for the next sixty years

A New Ideology

How to Create a Viable Ideology

And, I suspect, on my comments on why the progressive blog movement failed.

Anyone know a source for this data?  It would be much appreciated. Every source I find goes on about how increased cancer rates are largely because “we live longer”.  That’s clearly part of it, but how much?  Same thing with heart disease, anyone have that data?

I’ve decided, after some prompting, to put together an anthology of my writings.  Unfortunately they’re scattered over multiple blogs and some of those blogs don’t exist any more.  I had assumed this would be relatively easy, using the Wayback machine, but they seem to have made some changes.

Going to a later bopnews front page works fine. However, what no longer works is the drop down author box, which goes to Wayback machine’s own “bopnews” site.  It would probably be possible to find most articles by going through the archive day by day, but I’d really rather not.

Suggestions and/or solutions?

Sorry folks, but the amount of registration spam is out of control and one of the things slowing down the blog.  I’m going to purge everyone who doesn’t have at least editor level access tomorrow, and you’ll have to re-register with the new captcha system.  Sorry about this, it’s not elegant, but I’m hoping it makes the site run faster, and cuts down on my admin overhead.

On edit: to clarify, this shouldn’t effect people who an email subscription, just people who log in at the website proper, usually to comment.  That’s very few people compared to the overall audience.