figaro, thanks much for your time and patience. As it turns out this was a database issue and has since been rectified. Indeed it would appear it had nothing to do with the WordPress platform.
Thanks again for your patience and time.
MF
So far as I know no plugin was recently installed. There are four of us blogging there and I’m waiting to hear back from one author (two of us are in the states the other two in Japan so theres a bitof an information lag due to time zones.) Until I hear from him I can’t definitively say. Let’s presume no changes were made, is there a reasonable explanation for this beyond some second party maleficence?
Thanks much for your time
link to site is cominganarchy.com
So far as I know this just “happened.” We haven’t changed hosts or upgraded or moved the site.