This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

I have had to -- temporarily, I hope -- adjust the settings here so people can't post comments without typing in those annoying word-verification tests. I didn't want to do that, but for the past couple weeks I've been utterly slammed by spambots; deleting one or two bogus comments in a day is merely an annoyance, but twenty or thirty each day is a full-fledged problem.

I'll turn off the word-verification thing in a week or two and see how that works. Also, I have adjusted my political beliefs just enough to favor the death penalty for spambot comment programmers. (However, people who merely copyedit the spam should be exempt unless prosecutors can prove criminal intent, which they wouldn't be able to do in my case.)