Comments
As you may have noticed, comments are disabled. I think I know why. They were being bombarded by spammers for a few days, which I didn’t realize until yesterday, at which point I had to waste a vast amount of time deleting all the spam. I told Jeremy about the problem, which is to say I whined about it, without actually asking him to fix it in case it’s not convenient at the moment. I think he may have disabled them pending a less drastic fix (or perhaps, more depressingly, in the absence of a less drastic fix). I hope they’ll be restored eventually; meanwhile you can send comments to me if you like, and I will post them, though obviously there may be a delay.
Update: I spoke too hastily, I should have said I would try to post them; it turns out inserting them directly into the database doesn’t work either. Dratted spammers! Well…I’ll see what can be done, and let you know.
Checking…
And we’re back!
OB: The spammers, are like unwanted weeds. When you have no sooner turned your head they have, out of nowhere, taken root.
The wretched interlopers. They are the bane of the blogosphere.
Sorry you had to put up with this offensive behaviour.
Great article from ALD today – summarising why we invented the supernatural because our brains told us to…
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126941.700-born-believers-how-your-brain-creates-god.html?full=true
What a load of tosh. There could never be thought to be a king in a heaven until there were kings on earth. And in just which chromosomes is the complex panoply of this social institution thought to be implanted? This concept is part the cultural/historical crapheap, not embedded in our genes.
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