Fwck the Internet and the Dwarves that Dug It Out

All's I wanna do is post pithily at Paula's blog. She writes of spam and quotes a lengthy email from a faux if hopeful suitor. I write the following in the comment box.

It saddens me that in some third-world hovel of an internet cafe a young person is being forced by poverty to write such bad fiction.

I hit the Post Comment button and get

That email address is associated with an existing WordPress.com account, please log in to use it.

I try again, same result. I look through my records and find I have no Wordpress account associated with that blog-posting email. I get frustrated. I need to vent. I do so (you are reading it). My writing about the past catches up with the present. I write about the fact I am writing about the fact I am writing about---

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The exact same thing happened at Teacake's where I wrote

An annoyingly persistent and persistently annoying cough has afflicted numerous people within my purview. Might be a particularly potent vintage coming from the labs at the CDC.

only to see it stopped by the "soft" ware. That's it! I'm quitting the internet forever!