Cafe Hayek Blog Closes Comments Section

It's been a decade since I heard anybody well-informed claim in a seminar that the top 1% premium and the college premium were driven by similar factors… Larry Mishel:

Mark Thoma makes me aware of shifts in TypePad, and sends me to Bob Lawless: Comments, Spam, Loyal Readers, and False Positives - Credit Slips: The many interesting comments left by our informed readership help make Credit Slips one of the best places on the Internet for informed discussion about debt and bankruptcy issues. The many spam comments make Credit Slips a less useful resource.

Bob Lawless at Credit Slips says what I was going to say: Comments, Spam, Loyal Readers, and False Positives: ...

The spam filter seems to be catching a few more legitimate comments than usual recently. I just rescued about nine comments (out of over one hundred messages flagged as spam) from the last several days. Some of those comments were from some of our most regular commenters. I know that if you put in a lot of links your comment is more likely to be flagged. Besides that I don’t really know what it is looking for.

The National Post re-imagines a week in the life of a newsmaker. Today, Tristin Hopper looks at the week through the eyes of former prime minister Jean Chrétien. Monday No helmet, no pads … no tomorrow. Out here it’s Carpe diem or bust, man. I told my boy Ty to give me everything he’s got on the motor until I was almost flying. I’ll tell you, when you get those waves just right, it’s better than sex.

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