All good things must come to an end, but preferably not all at once.
7/17/2021
It is time for me to begin winding down this site after 16 years. This is phase one: closing it to new members.
Why have I closed this site to new members? Why stop accepting people’s money?
First, I have stage III prostate cancer. At 79, I am living on borrowed time.
Second, I have these obligations, six days a week: (1) writing two articles a day; (2) posting one old article that I want people to read – including nonmembers; (3) commenting on forum posts.
Third, I also have this recurring obligation: making marketing decisions and writing ads for the Ron Paul Curriculum.
Fourth, I want to add this obligation: produce 2,000 video-based lessons for my proposed free Christian curriculum. A lesson takes at least two hours to produce: PowerPoint outline, recording the screencast, editing it, rendering it into an MP4 file, posting it, and selecting a daily reading assignment.
This site’s main value is its forums. I read most posts. Members expect me to comment on posts on the general Q&A forum. This takes up a lot of my time.
New members take more time than existing members. They need to get up to speed. They ask questions. I must take them through the basics. I prefer not to do this. So, I have closed access to the members section.
I will still publish some free articles.
I will still send out my Tip of the Week eletter.
Meanwhile, for those of you who think things are under control in Washington, watch this.