I know, I know, I’ve said this is a nonpolitical blog more times than I can count or that my readers (however many there are, which is what the blogpost is about) can stand with equanimity.

But WordPress’ accounting for my subscribers puts me in mind of the unending claims about political elections, the particulars of which I am sure my readers have heard and read ad nauseum, and Bureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers revisions (ditto).

Two (count ’em, two) days ago the number stood at 368. Yesterday it was 338. Ostensibly, thirty (count ’em, thirty) of the subscribers to this my blog left en masse. I trust they gave the lamb the Exodus 12:8-10 treatment.

Today the number bounced back to 364. 

I have to laugh.