Thank you for taking the time to read this rather dry and boring rendition of “play nice and don’t clog my blog with advertisements.”

In order for your voice to be adequately represented, this blog does allow the free posting of comments on any and all blog postings.  Like all things these days, however, I do have a few guidelines to ensure that your full message is adequately represented.

• The author has the right to edit comments (up to and including deletion of comments) that do not add to the conversation.  Disagreement is an acceptable discourse, but personal attacks on the author or other commentators may result in pruning by management.  We hope to foster a forum for intelligent and adult conversation, not insult hurling or otherwise hurtful commentary.
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