By popular demand, I'm bringing back the featured comment, which fell by the wayside over the past few months, largely because Wayne had everyone so stirred up I couldn't find any that could be reproduced in polite company. This one is from Waspman, who wanted an enlarged view of my new T-shirts and ran into a cyber roadblock:
Waspman's take: I wanted a closer look at the t-shirts so I clicked the link. My federally funded computer landed me this message:
This Websense category is filtered: Potentially Damaging Content. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization.
Oh well, better schmuck next time.
Pete's take: It's happening again. Some web filters treat Schmuck as an obscenity. So do many people who read me. This kind of thing has been happening to me since the California Department of Motor Vehicles denied my request for a personalized SCHMUCK license plate way back in 1980 and said that the word I requested was "in bad taste and offensive to public decency."
Don't be detered. Here's a closeup of Mike Ricigliano's great Schmuck caricature, which has already been on the blog. I don't want to spend too much time hawking T-shirts here -- though I would be derelict if I didn't point out that you can get one at www.gotschmuck.com. We just thought creating a line of Schmuck Stops Here shirts would be fun and give us a chance to do some promotional things to draw attention to the blog. God knows I'll need that now that I have to compete with both Orioles Insider and School of Roch.