After being informed at some length, and in some delightfully colorful language, by certain subscribers that they had enough of receiving the hundreds of spam comments over the past week, I acceded to demands that I moderate comments.  This has wreaked havoc with comments, with real commenters posting over and over, unable to figure out why their comments don't appear, and just killing the entire flow of the conversation.

I apologize. I've blocked and deleted spammers throughout, and eventually they will figure out that they will never get their way.  Until then, please bear with me.  We will win the war of attrition.  Things will return to normal,  I hope.