I honestly don't know what's going on with the page views on this blog... as it creeps towards 500,000

 AI?  Bots?  Thousands of people finding this blog while using VPN's?  I don't know.  Steve Emig: The White Bear blog has about 200,000 "normal" page views, and now nearly 300,000 in huge chunks from all over.  I spend most of my time and effort on my Substack now, and just put up blog posts here once in a while.  If anyone knows what's going, let me know.