I went ahead and pulled the tag cloud from the right-hand column this
morning.  It worked fine for a few months
last fall,
but for several weeks now the tags have ceded their cloudiness, freezing instead on the set you see
here, many of which come from Ph.’s FR basketball schedule.  His season
ended two weeks ago. 

I returned to the Tagcloud
site, saw the latest news headline from 65 days ago: "TagCloud
Continues to Grow." On an apathetic whim, I sent in a troubleshooting note: "What the hay’s
going on with my cloud?"  But I haven’t heard anything back. 
Maybe one of these days I’ll look into a plugin that will allow me to do
something similar.