F***ing Spam!!

I am really getting tired of the amount of spam comments that have been directed to my blog lately. Fortunately WordPress  uses a wonderful plug-in called Akismet to filter the spam and hold it for me to check and delete, so at least the crap doesn’t get published on my blog for all to read. As of this very moment Akismet has protected my site from 1,014 spam comments. Of course this leads to the question of WHY???? Why do spammers continue to send their crapulent little messages about erectile dysfunction, penis enlargement and various “pleasure enhancing” pharmaceuticals to blogs and email accounts all around the world when so much time, effort and money has been invested in stopping these sorts of messages? Is the effort of setting up spam bots and sending this crap really worth it for what must be a minuscule amount of money made from the one moron in a million who might actually click on a link and buy something? I guess some people get a sick sense of satisfaction out of annoying others. Could there really be enough flaccid fools out there who do buy this stuff online, risking their health and possibly even their lives by self-medicating, buying goods that aren’t even guaranteed to have the desired effect or even contain the ingredients they’re supposed to? How would you really know what’s in a packet of pills you buy online from a less than reputable supplier? Oh well, hopefully “natural selection” will eventually play its part to eradicate “stupid” from the gene pool. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to put up with the irritation and frustration caused by the copious streams of spammy effluent flowing into our various blogs and email accounts every day.