Gasp…..

That’s the crew here at The Recovering Politician taking a deep breath after surviving an intense and unprecedented 36 hours or so.

Surviving, because the little essay written by Jeff Smith — on the subject of love behind bars — went, as the kids say, “viral.”  Tens of thousands of readers came to the site for the first time.  Thanks to the incredible support of our volunteer IT wunderkind, Justin Burnette, we limited the off-line time and have expanded our ability to enable more readers to come to our site and enjoy the experience in the future.

We deeply apologize to those of you who had troubles the past few days accessing the site, but we hope we’ve made it up to our loyal readers by developing an even stronger technological infrastructure for the future.

And for all of the newest members of the RP Nation, welcome.  We hope you enjoy the ride.