I miss the Gristmill. Very Slog-like with regular commenters and a constant stream of original content. I think it was soon after they killed the Gristmill that they removed comments altogether. I have no idea if that's a piece of their downfall or something that just saved them the effort of moderating. But I do still visit the Slog every day, compared to maybe once a month visits to Grist.

(http://grist.org/">here's a random sample of the old Gristmill if you're curious. Ok, 443 comments on the climate change article might hint at why they shut off comments.)

(damnit. trying link again.)

Unfortunate
Especially bad timing now

I used to read Grist a lot, but don't anymore. I wonder if it is just because the news is so depressing. We are fucked, and it is a lot easier to just put my head in the sand. Reading SLOG is a lot more encouraging. I can read about the handful of battles we win (look -- unisex bathrooms!) instead of spending too much time worrying about the war we are losing.

Speaking of the the world being fucked because we are ignoring the greatest threat to humanity (as well as other life on the planet), the CDC just cancelled a conference to discuss the effects of global warming on health. This is huge news, but everyone is focused on what our tweeter in charge (AKA The BIg Twit) is going to do next. This is horrible for a couple reasons, of course. The most likely catastrophe humanity will face in the next fifty years will be a huge epidemic. If nothing is done about it, global warming will be huge contributor to the problem. This is but one of the ways that climate change will fuck with our health. I sure wish environmental groups would stop showing pictures of polar bears and start showing sick people in Florida, because that is what we are up against.

Second, so far as I know, this is the first example of censorship by Trump. Not after the fact censorship which is always controversial but the best kind of censorship, which is self censorship based on fear. Basically a bunch of scientists are afraid of meeting with a bunch of other scientists, because they fear that when they make statements about science, it will piss off the President of the Unites States. We are fucked -- time to go read some Dan Savage.

Tl;dr, but 1 writer and *7* editors?? Who or what, exactly, are they all editing?