As administrator, I’ve temporarily called a halt to our open comments policy for unregistered users; they will no longer be able to post comments.

I’ll see how the registered users do.

With rare exceptions — anti-Semitic ranting, calls for the assassination of public figures — I prefer to let comments speak for themselves, or to use mockery and derision to contextualize them. Like Digby, I no longer have the time or the energy to watch everybody’s back, and the blog’s back, by spending my waking hours wading through the droppings of dull-eyed zombies:

Big Tent Democrat is a lying whore and so are you.

Hillary is toast. You two are either to [sic] stupid to notice. Or you are lying sack of chit.

Either way, you are both laughingstocks.

or to be fair, this:

truely [sic] sickening, yet proving once again, that Obama supporters will crawl into the gutter with any right wing filth that they can find..as long as it hurts Hillary, and advances Obama. Currently On Demmocratic Underground (for Obama supporters only)…the Obama folks are thrilled to bits about a new hatchet job on Hillary by Morris.

If I want to experience the thrill of processing every form of vile abuse, I’m perfectly capable of re-joining — or, perhaps I should say re-participating in — the threads on what used to be Daily Kos. There’s no percentage in that for me here.

Well done, all. Mission accomplished. Things fall apart.

UPDATE Registered users: In the unlikely event that you’ve forgotten your password, you can request a new one on the login form. You’ll get mail including a one-time link; click on it; and you’ll be logged into the page where you can change your password to what you want it to be. (Note that if this fails, you can mail for a another one-time link until you get it right.) Any problems, mail me at lambert_strether DOT corrente AT yahoo DOT com.