BTW I just had the misfortune to see Black Swan. Where is Mystery Science Theater 3000 when you need them. I spent the picture wondering why Portman didn’t do herself a big favor and buy herself a hamburger.

Just so you know, I tried about three or four times during the day to click on one of the “comment” links, and it was completely dead. The address bar didn’t change from neoneocon.com.

I noticed a message in the lower left corner of my screen. I didn’t think to write it down, but I think it said “Page Error”.

Anyway, glad you got things back to normal.

rickl: A couple of months ago my computer caught some sort of virus when I clicked through a Powerline blog post that linked to an aticle at David Horowitz’s FrontPage blog. The Powerline link took me directly to the FrontPage article, and I didn’t click on anything at FrontPage (unless I did so unwittingly). Anyway, a dialogue box suddenly appeared saying my computer was infected with multiple viruses and it urged me to click through to start a scan. I was very suspicious and did not click through. I shut my system down instead. Then when I turned it back on, about half way through the boot cycle that dialgue box appeared again and it would not allow my computer to complete the entire reboot. It just froze. I tried several more times, but the sytem was locked. I gave up and bought a new coputer (my old one was about 5 years old, so I was due). But it was pretty depressing to know I’m paying for McAfee, Webroot’s Spy Sweeper, and whatever protection Windows XP had built into it, and the virus still got through and copletely disabled my computer.

Odd, that it’s happening at conservative blogs.

I clicked on your link and bought it from Amazon. When it arrived I picked it up and couldn’t put it down.

His account is superbly written and riveting.

Without your recommendation, it is likely I would never have read it. I realize now that I was still harboring some of the negative impressions of Whitaker Chambers that I must have picked up from the media when–long ago–I still thought they attempted to be honest.

After I read your own absorbing account of your evolution, your recommendation was enough in itself to overcome my lingering prejudice against Chambers.

Thank you. It is one of the best books I have read in a good while.

Now, when you feel like it, you’ve got the subject of a new post just about the solving of this problem. 🙂

Good job!
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Neo-Neocon
Transterrestrial Musings
Ace of Spades
Pajamas Media
RightNetwork

Meanwhile, there were numerous other sites where I didn’t have any problems.

At Ace of Spades I get a message saying my IP address had been banned. At all the others, my comments simply disappeared. I get a “duplicate post detected” message if I try again.

I e-mailed Neo and she found my missing comments in her spam filter. She set them free and things are back to normal now. (I did thank you in the comments, Neo, in case you didn’t see it; although I suppose I should have sent an e-mail thanking you.)

I e-mailed Rand Simberg at TTM, but he didn’t find my comments in his spam filter, and doesn’t know what else to do.

I sent e-mails to Ace and PJM but never heard back.

I never sent an e-mail to RightNetwork, but I tried a test message last weekend and it worked.

I’ve also gotten three e-mails from Comcast telling me that my computer may be infected with “bots” and to click on their security link. I ignored the first two, but finally clicked on it the third time since the e-mails looked legit and I was having the aforementioned problems. I ended up downloading a free version of Norton’s security suite from Comcast’s site. I ran the system scan but it didn’t turn up anything.

Meanwhile, there’s been some Mac malware going around. Just within the past few days (and before I downloaded the Norton software) I’ve had a dialogue box pop up several times telling me that my computer is infected and to click on it. It looked suspicious as hell, so I force quit Safari instead. My instincts were correct, since that turned out to be exactly what Apple recommends doing. They’ll soon put out a security update to deal with it.

This afternoon I saw a thread at Ace of Spades about malware that is apparently being transmitted through some of the ads on the site. Some of the commenters described having serious problems with it.

Does Worpress have any ideas, or do they have perhaps ONE Lone Ranger trying to deal with 500 indians at the same time.

Having been in IT, I kinda suspect the latter.

Best of luck.
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for what it’s worth, i REALLY enjoy your blog.