This morning’s surprise here at Whatever Works: instead of the usual visible list of ‘recent comments’ on the homepage, here’s what I woke up to instead:
There are no public comments available to display.
Any fellow WordPress bloggers know what’s going on – I can’t find a fix.
UPDATE: It’s even worse. No comments are even coming in – nothing on the blog or in my email since midnight. And now no email at all since noon. So maybe it’s a provider or email problem. Yikes. Since I can’t see comments, feel free to email any thoughts to me: maureenholland@comcast.net
FINAL UPDATE (I hope): A just-as-mysterious self correction has opened the dates and now mail and comments are flowing again. That odd message under ‘Recent Comments’ on the homepage still there.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
Whatever Works 
Sometimes just going into the specific widget and then saving works after you refresh your page…
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Hey TAO, hi, been a while. I did a few restarts earlier and still no email, no comments. Then I went out and actually turned the laptop entirely OFF for a few hours. Came home, fired ‘er up and whammo! All working. Oddness abounds. Now I shall try your suggestion – if the recent comments show up again, that’ll be why!
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TAO!!!! This is me patting you on the back! Saying THANKS. Your solution worked! The comments are back. Thank you sooo much.
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Whoops, now they’re gone again. I think I’ll just wait a while.
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TAO – they’re B-A-A-C-C-K-K. Now let’s see how long they last.
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Surprise, surprise.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-senate-close-deal-debt-limit-aide-011833539–sector.html
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Well, wasn’t’ that all fun T4T, eh? Real damage was done, and for what. We’re led by lizards.
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There is always damage done. My issue is the fear they instill in people. The damage caused by that far outweighs any kind of collapse. In fact, most of us can handle the events its the uncertainties that create the most problems.
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It seems people have been losing confidence in government since Vietnam and it becomes a little weaker every few years – never goes up. And the increasing incidents of ‘governing by crisis’ are really making it so much worse.
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Oh a cyberspace issue…how unusual.
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