It looks like I may be able to use Haloscan for comments, since commenting sits on their server, and not that of my ISP. We'll see how it goes.

Haloscan can be notorious for problems, but they do have a pretty fair degree of reliability, so we'll see how it all goes.

To paraphrase Ron Ziegler, "No previous comments are operative".

So, let's see how it works, shall we? I have enabled "moderation", so comments will not show up right away, I think. This may be a good thing, we'll see. I also don't know why it seems to think that there are no comments, when in fact there are. But I guess I'll solve that puzzle later. Happy commenting, if you are so inclined...

Thanks for your patience. Sorry 'bout all that... fucking spammers.

Note: I am going to try running without the moderation feature for a while. Play nice.