You have made this site UNUSABLE !! It started slowing down drastically when the righthand side bar was added ads refreshed (while commenting, the focus shifted to the sidebar and you lost everything you typed!), but since adding the bottom ad bar, the site is COMPLETELY unusable!!! I am on a 50Mbps link and it takes 1 - 1 1/2 MINUTES to load the page!!!! The authentication between the Comments section and the news pages is horrific (and I know what I'm talking about as I built the Cisco Systems customer authentication infrastructure!).

I will be switching to Google today!