Perhaps it was when the ed-i-tor started handing out authorizations in the name of fighting SPAM.

Perhaps those cuckoo clocks we thought had moved on to torment other comments sections in the known blogiverse came back as hackers?

(The trouble maker and the one who had everybody fooled. Bingo!)

Lately, if I post a comment, it appears on the cover page as if with the iconic wool capped paperboy calling out "EXTRA!!!" Some days, over and over again.

I swear it's not me. I'd suspect someone who knows how to pump multiples of views and rates into their own "work," if I were willing to entertain a little paranoia. More likely, it's a hiccup that happens when the comment posting goes to that now all too familiar errors page. Or, gadzooks, a virus on the OS server. I mean a virus over and above the open door policy to sports comma porn comma "D.O.S." trippers.

And, to make my participation in this community even more challenging, those comments are being regurgitated, and I choose words carefully on occasion, at the victim's end.

I'm offering the following to all I have unintentionally bombarded with average comments, not worthy of multiples. And a little somethin' for you, Jake.