Some nonsense I cannot ignore!

I get a ton of spam, and it’s a very annoying process to have to scroll through the comments labeled as spam in order to save and then publish the “good” ones. The spams outnumber the goods by a ratio of 20 to 1, and it’s easy to make a mistake. My apologies to all of the people who take the time to leave a comment, whether you agree with me or not. One important difference between real comments and spam is that I delete the latter, and out of respect for my quirky view of free speech never delete the former.

Normally I would say that spam is always annoying, but there is the occasional exception that proves the rule.

Once in a great while, a spam comment will get my attention, and I thought one I saw this morning (originating from a site described as a “dedicated spam server”) was not only better than some non-spam comments I get, but actually merited a response from yours truly!

Man if i ever saw two racoons fighting over a blogs itd be this one

He misspelled the word, but I like the image of raccoons fighting over a blog! And it doesn’t have to be this blog. Any blog’ll do!

So I scoured the Internet, and while I couldn’t find any pictures of raccoons fighting over an identified blog, I confirmed that they are capable of messing with computers, and since computers are where blogs come from, to the extent that raccoons fight over a computer, it is fair to say that they are also fighting over the fruits of that computer — which is often a blog.

This one shows a raccoon breaking and entering into a computer belonging to one “Sarah”!

And it is important to note that that raccoon was not alone.

He had an accomplice, and here they are together!

And as we all know, accomplices in crime frequently fight over the loot.

So it isn’t too much of a stretch to say that under the right circumstances, raccoons might fight over a blog.

Moreover, raccoons are intelligent animals, and if another picture I found is any indication, they might be capable of blogging.

I realize that to us, any text that raccoon might generate would most likely not make sense. But in fairness, couldn’t raccoons say the same thing about the text we humans generate?

If generating nonsense is an attribute some humans have, then raccoons who generate nonsense can honestly be said to have something in common with the people who generate nonsense.  

I would hesitate to say that all nonsense is created equal, but I do think some nonsense is more worth fighting over than other nonsense.