Comments are welcome, sort of.  This blog is an ongoing cocktail party - or at least with some help it will be.  I host this party. I bought these drinks.

1) Comments must not dispirit other readers.

Would anyone attend a party at which the guests were humorlessly competing with each other over who could make the most bleak comment possible about the state of civilization? No. You were not invited here to be a drag. You can be angry but you must shape that anger with wit. You can be depressed but not depressing.

2) Comments ought to be interesting, funny or the product of drunkeness.

If they are none of the above and furthermore do not at least constitute "making a scene" they will be deleted.

3) Comments are to conform to standards defined as "Not Crazy"

I do not host this party in order for guests to be uncharitable¹, to promote conspiracy theories² or libertarianism³. There are exceptions and you must read the fine print.

 4) You must also be well dressed or at least have "a look" when you make comments.

My readers and I are such fine connoisseurs of the written word that we can tell almost exactly what you are wearing based on the diction, sonority and lilt of your prose.  Your appearance reflects on mine when you are here. You were not invited here to look shabby. If you do look shabby, you should justify it as a peculiar aesthetic.

_{*1) Uncharitable remarks may be made about white people, Muslims, South-east asians, Europeans, "modernists",  Greek gods, the Chinese (a.k.a. Orientals), and neo-conservatives.}

_{2)Conspiracy theories are automatically approved if they involve Freemasons, Odinists.}

_{3) Libertarians may comment freely and may disagree with me. But their only protection is my patience and the quality of their dress.  (See Rule 4)}