To our wonderful and wacky commentariat: we’re sorry. It appears as if a communication breakdown between our content management system and our comment system has created some visible problems, like comments randomly disappearing, inaccurate counts on different views of the website, and other inconveniences. Our technology folks up in New York have been working on this problem for some time, but a long-term solution has been elusive — though I’m told that things could be back to normal in the next few days. So, again, our sincerest apologies.