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by John Cole|  March 6, 20106:41 pm| 25 Comments

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The spam filter is out of control, and I know that a number of you are having problems. If you have lost a comment, it is because I just deleted the whole damned thing.

Sorry, but this is a hobby, not a job.

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  1. 1.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    March 6, 2010 at 6:44 pm

    That’s okay, you can delete mine as is your wont/ There are plenty more brain farts where that one came from. You can’t stop the signal Cole.

  2. 2.

    jeffreyw

    March 6, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    I find that I can only provide 1 link per post. I’ve been blaming WP.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Jake

    March 6, 2010 at 6:48 pm

    Sorry, but this is a hobby, not a job.

    You’re kidding right? Cole, you’re selling coffee mugs with your fucking cat’s picture on them. Don’t get me wrong, that stuff is great. But whatever “job” you do have, it became your hobby a long time ago.

  4. 4.

    Derelict

    March 6, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    There cannot possibly be anything more important than these words I’m typing.

  5. 5.

    Yutsano

    March 6, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    @Comrade Jake: Uhh…the money from all that stuff goes to an animal shelter in North Carolina. John doesn’t make anything off the BJ store. Not that he couldn’t if he wanted, but that is not its purpose.

  6. 6.

    Les

    March 6, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    “The spam filter is out of control.”

    That needs to be a tag. Maybe instead of the sooo pedestrian “Site maintenance.”

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    March 6, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Sorry, but this is a hobby, not a job.

    Capitalist Pig!

    .

  8. 8.

    gbear

    March 6, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    I know that a number of you are having problems

    That seems to have become a main theme of the comments in many open threads.

  9. 9.

    mr. whipple

    March 6, 2010 at 7:03 pm

    Sorry, but this is a hobby, not a job.

    LOL x 10.

    A hobby is an activity or interest that is undertaken for pleasure or relaxation, often in one’s spare time.

    Dood, you are working. You just aren’t getting paid for it.

  10. 10.

    John Cole

    March 6, 2010 at 7:03 pm

    @Comrade Jake: Tell me you are drunk or just missed the 500 announcements that the store is all going to a no-kill animal rescue.

  11. 11.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    March 6, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    Somebody is wearing his crabby cap.

    Post a picture of the pets and go play one of them newfangled video games. We’ll amuse ourselves.

  12. 12.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    March 6, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    @John Cole: I’m with comrade Jake and this oughta pay better. We need minimum minion wages, NOW. Attica! Attica! Attica!.

    I call a general commentariat strike, well maybe tomorrow, I got shit to say tonight.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Mary

    March 6, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    Don’t you mean “Atticat! Atticat! Atticat!”?

    I’m skeered of linking now. I may never link again.

  14. 14.

    mr. whipple

    March 6, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    @Comrade Mary: “I’m skeered of linking now. I may never link again.”

    LOL. Me, too. One night on the ‘artists’ thread I tried posting a link that got caught in the filter. Only I didn’t know there was a filter, so I must have posted it 20 times figuring that at some point it was going to go through.

    I probably po’d someone mightily over that.

  15. 15.

    Keith G

    March 6, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    @Yutsano:

    @John Cole:

    I could be wrong, but when I read Comrade Jake’s comment, I immediately took it as a kind and humorous observation on the amount of time that JC puts into things here.

    If judged by time on clock and amount lives touched, this is quite a full time job.

    Tho the denero sucks.

  16. 16.

    jeffreyw

    March 6, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    Random doggie pic.

  17. 17.

    Maude

    March 6, 2010 at 7:33 pm

    What we have here commenters is an amazing blogger. If this is a hobby, I wouldn’t want to compete with him on a job.

  18. 18.

    robertdsc

    March 6, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    Your work is appreciated, John. Thank you for everything.

  19. 19.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    March 6, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    Don’t over butter senor Cole. We want to keep him hungry and full of self doubt.

  20. 20.

    Ash Can

    March 6, 2010 at 8:07 pm

    FYWP

  21. 21.

    Yutsano

    March 6, 2010 at 8:26 pm

    @Ash Can: A to the fucking men on that brotha.

  22. 22.

    Tim in SF

    March 6, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    John,

    There’s a great captcha plugin for WordPress. I use it on my blog and it’s great at stopping spam in its tracks.

  23. 23.

    Stacy in MN

    March 6, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    I’m just going to de-lurk really quick and say that I’m glad this is your hobby, Mr. Cole, because I don’t know how I’d get through the political week without you, your co-bloggers, and your commenters. I have much appreciation for what you do here, even if my comment gets eated.

    And I’d add that in a just world, it would be your job, and I could watch you on CNN this Sunday instead of fancy-feet DeLay.

  24. 24.

    Comrade Jake

    March 6, 2010 at 9:41 pm

    @Yutsano:

    J-O-K-E

  25. 25.

    AhabTRuler

    March 6, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    Cole, you’re selling coffee mugs with your fucking cat’s picture on them.

    As L-dub might say: “Hah!”

    All he has had to do is sit around and feel pain (you’ve got a real talent son, keep it up!), the minions took care of the rest.

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