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Wordpress automatically comes with Akismet for comment spam catching, and it does a very good job.

What I don’t understand is the point of comment spamming… Most blogs I’ve run across automatically moderate the first comment from a particular person, and/or have something along the lines of Akismet. Now, when I get these, it’s not like I am going to actually click any of the links in them and they get deleted. So – what is the point of putting a bot out there to do this when the comments aren’t ever going to see the light of day?

To Mr. Andrew Speaker, the 31 year old personal injury lawyer who exposed who knows how many people to a drug resistant strain of tuberculosis.

Dear Dumbass,

Yes, you heard me right. You’re doing a bang up job of furthering the stereotype that lawyers are a bunch of self-absorbed twits, which you most certainly are.

You knew you had tuberculosis before you left the country. What on earth would ever, EVER make you think that traveling was an acceptable course of action? It’s freakin’ tuberculosis, you moron. This is not like getting on a plane with touch of a head cold. Just because you “felt fine” doesn’t mean YOU’RE NOT SICK OR CONTAGIOUS.

Of course, I really love the fact that when you found out it was a drug resistant strain that you decided to take it mildly seriously – and yet again ignored orders NOT to travel and got on another long haul flight. Brilliant. Sure, you said it was because you were afraid you wouldn’t survive if you didn’t get home right away, but why is your health and well being more important than anyone else’s? A simple phone call to the embassy in Rome could have gotten the ball rolling on getting you back to the US without putting more people in harm’s way.

The folks on the news were pondering whether or not your father-in-law (who works with TB at the Centers for Disease Control) should somehow be brought into the inquiry – right now I’m sure he’s just beating his head into the wall over the fact that his daughter married such an idiot – punishment enough I think.

I caught a statement you made on the news earlier this evening that shows that you still don’t get it. You’re complaining about the fact that you are under quarantine with an armed guard. Frankly, the way you’ve acted so far, I think it’s probably the only thing that is keeping you from showing up at the Starbucks in downtown Denver.

I would think that as a personal injury lawyer you would really understand the concept of gross negligence, but apparently not. Frankly, if I was one of the folks you exposed to this, I’d be standing outside your hospital room so I could be the first to pop you in the mouth when they let you out.

I’d like to think that maybe you’ve learned something from this whole debacle, but I am guessing you’ll just find someone else to blame and sue them.

Yeah, new and improved, my ass. Google reader has made some damn modification to that my keyboard is damn near useless when I have that page opened – can’t use the keyboard to get to the browser menu, it just starts activating crap on the page that I don’t use anyway.

Second, Starbucks is supposedly phasing out whole milk in it’s shops for 2%. If I wanted 2% milk, I’d ask for it. Don’t force someone else’s damn diet plan on me, thankyouverymuch.

You may end up having to apologize to your entire customer base…

But, I’m glad to see LiveJournal/Six Apart are least reviewing things instead of simply sticking with “your account was reported, therefore it is automatically suspended” tack they were taking yesterday. Granted, it’s what they should have done in the first place, because it seems that many of these accounts could have been easily fixed to be within TOS parameters, but at least they’re doing it.

Honestly, I’m not surprised at how this has played out. I’m sure this has NOT been a fun week for the abuse team – having a group like Warriors for Innocence decide to target your site and customers has to be somewhat disconcerting to say the least. I can see why it went straight to suspensions. But at the same time, it’s not like these journals were ever completely wiped off the map and I’m hardly shocked that they’re now actually reviewing them.

Glad they’re fixing it. Shame that cooler heads weren’t around when it all hit the fan in the first place.