My response to Jim on "password protected posts":

But Jim, this isn’t a pay blog. On the top page two posts are ‘protected,’ and eight are ‘unprotected’ – and those eight unprotected’s are pretty high quality. Those of us contributing (not paying) are the ones who think this blog is ‘so special’ that we want to help defray any costs involved. Since you think it’s not special, then you obviously feel you can get the same info elsewhere, so how is kc ‘interposing’ himself between you and Grace? I hope you’ll stay – would hate to see you miss out on all the ‘unprotected’ fun here. ;-)