Hosting is Slow
The gents at DreamHost are having problems at the moment. From their status wiki:
Most of the filer problems from yesterday have been resolved, but there are still a few outstanding issues. One of our switches is saturated at the moment and is causing high loads on some servers. If you’re still experiencing slow load times with your site or email, this is probably the cause. Our team of admins (who haven’t got much sleep the last couple of days) are down in the datacenter now trying to remedy this situation and hope to have it back to normal shortly. We thank you all for your patience as we try to clean up the last of these issues.
They're usually pretty good, but if you've been wondering, that's why this site is so bloody slow.
