I'm on some awesome mania trip at the moment, so forgive my obnoxious lucidity:
Try taking the 's' out of 'https' and it seems to give you the old side bar, why those secured by a socket layer don't deserve /ginger/ and /faux/ is beyond me. If anything else was removed and I didn't notice, it is clearly of no use to anyone.
Also, I hardly see how my MA is doing this. No more scapegoating, por favor.