Surviving Catabolic Collapse: A Case Study

One of the longstanding traditions on this blog is that when there are five Wednesdays in a month, my commentariat gets to propose topics for the fifth Wednesday post, and whichever topic gets the most votes ends up becoming the theme I write about for that post. That’s landed me in a pickle or two from time to time, when the topic my readers want to hear about is something I’d really rather not address; sometimes, by contrast, a reader request pitchforks me into unexpectedly interesting territo...