Just out of curiosity I clicked on the blogroll link to Flogging the Simian.  Following her 'farewell from blogging' posts in late September, soj took her site down and hasn't posted here since.

But guess what?  Three weeks later, FTS reappeared (with the monkey and woman changing positions!) and soj has posted some excellent pieces on the manufacturing of an Iran 'crisis', on blogging, and a variety of other subjects.

It's worth checking out.  Guess the writing urge was just too powerful.

Cross-posted at Booman Tribune.