MYSTERY LARGELY SOLVED

Bloggist extraordinaire David C. Daniel, bless him, writes to point out that I had a commented-out META tag telling bots to NOINDEX NOFOLLOW NOARCHIVE. It was commented out, but I have noticed that stuff I've commented out seems to execute anyway. (A fairly large glitch in HTML or Blogger!) So that is probably what's going on: Google thinks I don't want the blog indexed. Now that I've changed to META tag to yes, do please index and follow, we should be in business.

Now I have to figure out how to NOARCHIVE the front page and ARCHIVE the permaposts...