Comment Policy

First off please know that I love most all your comments and I am deeply grateful that so many of you take the time to read and comment. It never ceases to amaze me that so many people read what I write. I never in a million years thought that I'd have a blog and that I'd make friends with people all over the country and all over the world though it. So again, thank you all for reading and commenting.

Now having said that why do I delete some comments? For these reasons:

• the commenter is a right wing troll who has been insulting to me or my commenters in the past.
• the commenter annoys or has annoyed me in the past.
• you pointed out a typo for which I am grateful and it was corrected so your comment has been rendered moot.
• your comment denied the premise of a comedic post I wrote.
• you took issue with and started an argument another of my commenters in my comments section.
• you are a spammer and are trying to use my blog to drive business to your blog or web page.
• you left multiple comments on the same post or responded to another commenter repeatedly.

If you see I have deleted your comment please don't be an ass and keep trying to leave the same comment or leaving another comment about how I am abusing your freedom of speech because I am not. If you have the ability to comment on my blog then you can write your own blog. And then I can feel free not to read it.

As for what comments may annoy me, it's really a crap shoot. What may annoy me one day may not annoy me the next. If you are a long time commenter who usually leaves funny or complimentary comments I'll let you slide if you write a comment that may annoy me one day. I'll also give the benefit of the doubt to most Canadian women, a few Finns, and to a player to be named later.