Friday, December 17, 2004 - Posts

On comment spam: I have just discovered that Texas is the Root of all Evil

When I first started getting comment spam of a commercial (i.e. obviously commissioned to pervert page rankings in Google) nature, the vast majority of it came from China. This pattern continued for some considerable time, but I have lately noticed a switch.

While it is difficult to be certain about this (since US states do not have their own domain suffixes. Yet), I can't help noticing that in many of the masses of links for disreputable businesses that have been sent in comments to this blog lately, the word “Texas” features prominently. So as far as I can tell Texas is now the home of commercial comment spam.

I could not help also noticing that some of this Texan comment spam appears to promote that odd, infantilised and commercialised pseudo-Christianity to which some people in the US are strangely susceptible (whether as a result of a dietary deficiency or having been dropped on their heads as babies, I do not know).

So, given that spam is undeniably a manifestation of Evil, religion hawked by spammers is obviously the work of the Anti-Christ.
This leads ineluctably to the conclusion that Texas is the home of the Anti-Christ.

Who would've guessed?