This Stack is off schedule—only the shortest of my forthcoming pieces is out, and I intended to wait until at least two of the longer ones were published before Stacking again—but I felt too much of a burning desire to write (on Substack, no less!) about how much I hate Substack to wait patiently. You’ll have to bear with me as this irregular newsletter becomes more and more regular and less and less of a newsletter—that is, as it transmutes more and more into a forum for ranting about things I’m not especially qualified to rant about. (More on how this is the essence of Substack momentarily.)