Why is the website so slow?

I have Comcast high speed, and this is the slowest website I've ever navigated in my life. Does anybody else find this annoying when browsing through reviews and discussion boards? Sometimes, it takes up to 30 seconds just to retrieve a single page. I am a paying member, so I am assuming that part of my memebership fee goes toward technical improvements. I would like to recommend that this be one of them. I sent the owner an email about this topic over a month ago, but I never got a reply. So what do you guys think? Do you enjoy looking at dead air every mouse click, and wasting 10-second intervals of your life - over and over again? It adds up. I wouldn't mind paying an extra $5/month if it brings TUSCL into the 21st century.