Really? I've got Privacy Badger working in my browser (chrome) and everything is fine. Wonder what the specific difference is.

Maybe because the privacy policy is “differential”?

You might have added some exceptions for Google in your Privacy Badger installation or PB hasn't recognised Google as a tracker (yet).

Although I have to add that my computer's installation of Firefox (with all tracking protections enabled) does not make this blog unreadable. My settings in ublock do though (third party requests are all blocked).

This site loads JavaScript from a large number of sites (~6-8 domains, 20 sites in total).

This is not "tracking" per se, you can get the site working by accepting JavaScript from the "right" sites (if you know which are not for tracking).