Can we libel you?

Frankly, I'd be heartbroken if you didn't.

Do you really think if I had Angelina Jolie's cell phone number I would post it? Not a chance.

This is an useless message to tell you I like your blog.I usually have nothing clever to say, so I just lurk.

But since you asked for it...

>> the sophistication of the spam demons inexorably increases

You don't get it, Jon, do you? All these "intelligent" comments you've been receiving from your so-called friends and readers all came from "sophisticated demons." The one-word, no-caps names should have been a giveaway. But no, your big thick skull (I am describing the pic you posted in your profile space) couldn't process these clues!

Unless, of course... the joke's on me. Could it be that you, too, are just a computer-generated sophisticated spam demon? Maybe, all along, I've been the only human on this blog. Now it's all beginning to make sense... Damn, it's lonely out here.

Speaking of phone numbers, did y'all catch Robert Fisk's article, posted on Common Dreams?

"You'd better call Shimon Peres," he told me. "Here's his home number."

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0131-20.htm

Mark

Bernard Chazelle,

Sorry Bernie, but you're wrong. We are real and so is Jonathan. Perhaps you only think you are the only human. I Robot?

Bernard Chazelle,

I agree with J. Alva Scruggs. Your post "colonial blowback" is cool. Thanx.

Here, let me add my comment to the plethora.

Posting from a cgi proxy for the fun of it.

Heh. This one from Anonymizer.

To clarify that, normal anonymity precautions doen't appear to trigger the anti-spam measures. I don't run Tor on this box, but on others the open proxy blocking mod has sometimes blocked commenting.

Yeah, Jon--you think you can get me to comment whenever you want, just 'cause you ask? It doesn't work like that, pal.

DAMN! Outfoxed again!

Well, spam is one thing -- but what if they cloned spam from human genes! Spamo sapiens -- it would horrible! I hope congress acts on this right away. That would be the Christian thing to do, don't you think?

I have a dream that somebody all the members of the Bush Gang, also known as the Cheney Administration, will receive a fair trial, and then be punished to the full extent of the law. I imagine a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, the U.S. Air Force Band, the firing squad composed of Marines in their dress uniforms....

Here's my recipe for All-spice Orange-Nut Bread:

2 c sifted all-purpose flour
1 c. sugar
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 egg
2 Tbsp grated orange rind (don't skimp on this!)
2/3 c orange juice
3 Tbsp melted butter
1 c chopped nuts
Mix dry ingredients. Beat egg and combine with remaining ingredients execpt nuts. Add liquid to flour mixture all at once, but stir only until well-blended. Finally, stir in nuts. Use well-greased loaf pan (9x5x3") and bake at 350Ëšfor about 50 minutes or until loaf tests clean. Cool 5 minutes before removing from pan. Slice when loaf is completely cool. Serve with whipped butter and tea.

For violent overthrow of government, subsitute 2 cups plastique for flour and omit nuts. Note: Do Not Stir. Just launch and reload!

My arse is bleeding again....

Hahaha! Two cups plastique in a 350Ëš oven for about 50 minutes. I don't think so. I'm no bomb expert, but that sounds like an explosive little bread to me.

Since I lack wit, I will quote some luminaries of ages past:

"More grog, wench!" --- Ulfgar the Tumescent, ca. 420 AD

"Hey, I can see my house from here!" --- Louis XVI, Jan 21, 1793

"Wait, I forgot to pee!" --- Buzz Aldrin, July 16, 1969

I really, really liked this I read at another blog (pandagon):
If there’s anything that’s more despicable than selling out freedom for security, it’s selling out freedom for a false sense of security.

Well, you SAID you wanted any kind of comments--don't great quotes from "competitiors" count?

Too true, M. Vieux. In my haste, I neglected to stipulate that under _no_ circumstance should the plastique substitution be baked. You are too clever for moi!
As for M. Twisted, remember to grease your loaf pan liberally. Aside from this, I'm afraid I don't have any better advice.

Since this is a comment thread, and since the recent Koufax awards made me aware of the problem, when the fuck are you going to get a blouaargh, mk?

No, no blouaargh for me. I am busy cloning spam demons.

does referring to your blouaargh as a blaeeeergh help reduce the sp*m you get?

Sumthin about "grease your loaf pan liberally" just craks me up

I'm really mad at my coworker. He's a big jerk, and also kind of a devious a*hole. I hope he gets spit on the next time he leaves the building. (Thanks, I needed to get that out.)

Useless comment to say that I love your blog. The only problem with it is that it makes my own blog seem to trite by comparison.

This has been a test. If this were a real comment, there would have been mispellings, er... misspelings, er... words wrongly spelled.