I’m placing my bet on Wordpress

The Old Reader supports 100 feeds on the free tier. And they have a nice list of apps that support syncing to your account:

https://www.theoldreader.com/en/apps/

Might work for you if you don’t syndicate many feeds.

If you don’t mind the learning curve, Scribus does a good job.

I don’t know what’s worse: The whole anti same-sex marriage deal or inventing Javascript.

Probably Javascript…

Heh. Made me smile.

Here, have an upvote! ;)