Yeah this is pretty awful. CA has never been perfect, but you could at least find content with personality there sometimes, as oppose to what you find on CBR these days
Also, what I'm guessing will be the final post to the site seems trenchant enough to make me wonder if that timing is coincidence or if they snuck it into the posting queue between being laid off and having access revoked.
It'd be nice if they could manage it. They weren't perfect, but I appreciated their efforts at bringing social commentary in rather than just breathless parroting of news releases.