The good folks at Haloscan provide Welcome to Blog with its feedback links. If you click the link at the bottom of each post you'll be directed to an area where you can leave your thoughts, opinions, notions, diatribes and harangues. But with every allegedly free internet service there comes a price. Usually it's spam, spyware or ads. In the case of Haloscan, these ads can be arcane, relevant to the topic at hand or perhaps even physic. Posts on Futurama yield ads for Futurama and anti-Bush posts yield ads for political sites. Consider this one, which I just found, strangely enough, in the feedback area for the traffic ticket post:


Liberal Blog Needs Your Help!
Republican trolls have laid siege to my peaceful liberal blog. Help!

Tim? WWB? Are either of you plotting an insurrection? Should I beware the ides of Haloscan?