Sadly, it is necessary for me to post this page and also to be quite blunt about it. Please excuse my directness — I am setting a legal background for policing the comments that appear here so that I can keep this blog a decent place for decent people to come.

Acceptable comments will not use profanity. They will also not use phonetic substitutes.

Email addresses will be valid.

URL’s, where given, will be valid.

If you cannot be reached, you will not be heard.

Acceptable comments will not engage in hateful speech of any sort.

If you do not agree with these restrictions, please take your business elsewhere.

You can disagree with me. You can disagree with each other. Dissent is acceptable and open expression of opinions and ideas is the very mechanism that will permit the best to bubble to the top. But the moment you use profanity or overtly hateful talk, your IP will be banned forever and Akismet will be informed that you are a spammer … which will make commenting elsewhere progressively more difficult, too.

In the words of “Willy the Wave”, “Be nice.”