About the Comments...

We going to make a request or three here:

• Whomever is typing in all CAPITAL LETTERS ALL THE TIME, please knock it off. We know there are a couple people doing it. It's difficult to read and we can barely see the sentence breaks and such. We aren't irritated enough with it yet, but there will come a day that we simple delete all comments written in CAPITAL letters just to avoid straining our eyes.
  
• Lay off the grammar and spelling and sentence construct criticisms. It detracts from the flow of the thread. No one here is impressed that you know the difference between "there," "their," and "they're." Just chuckle quietly to yourself when you see some person claiming to be "college educated" and then they massacre the King's English. We aren't perfect with the typing and we don't really expect anyone else to be.
  
• A bunch of people have been cutting and pasting entire articles from various online publications. These are deleted out of hand as soon as we see them. Learn to link the article in the comments using "href" tags, copy/paste the link from your address bar (but break it up...e-blogger doesn't like long tags and will cut them off), or quote a paragraph (fair use) and then tell people where to find it.
• When quoting someone else's previous comment, especially super long comments, you don't have to copy the entire comment to rip or compliment them. Because then the next guys quotes the original comment AND yours and proceeds to rip on both of you and then the next guy... you get the idea? Either copy/paste the comment date and time so if people care enough, they'll go find the original comment OR copy just the text that you want to critique OR just the opening line of a huge manifesto. Again, we aren't irritated enough to delete long criticisms out of hand, but it could happen.

And the banned list of words and phrases continues to be in effect. Read through our previous archives to find them all. But we're sure everyone here has the gist of it all.