"The Senate Ethics Committee thought what they did was appropriate but no big deal," said one prominent Senate Democrat. "And then to see it blow up like this. There are so many other things that would have been more severe if the evidence had warranted it. A letter of reprimand is really, on the scale of what an ethics committee can do, relatively minor."
Comment spam is an ongoing problems that we're trying to address. Previously we required people to create accounts and log in. I am thankful to say that is no longer the case. We're giving Captcha another try and are playing around with a text-based Q&A variant of Captcha. So bear with us as we try to figure out how to best get a handle ont he problem. Please note that any comment on a post more than 30 days old will go into the moderation queue, where I will get to it when I can which could be once a week.
