OK, it looks like the spam monkeys are at work in the comments fields here again.
As we get the technical tools to deal with this the situation will improve.
In the meantime, let’s note this for what it is: a ridiculous, juvenile and utterly antisocial effort to quell speech. It is, literally, an effort to drown out others’ voices. The spammers can’t affect anything published on the main page of this blog, but they seem to get their kicks from making it hard for other people to post comments.
The absurdity here is that, more often than not, the commenters are people who have hung around this blog to take issue with my arguments about the war. So if there’s some bizarre Freeper motivation at work behind the spam, some kneejerk neanderthal anti-Salon-ism from the right, it’s backfiring: all it’s really achieving is making it tough for the posters who have gamely and thoughtfully been contesting my pessimistic posts on the war.
But then spammers rarely do make much sense.
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