comments redux

I've set my comments to "disallow, but show existing" for the following posts:

"want"
"how things change"
"birthday dilemma"
"from PowerLine"

So you can no longer comment on those posts. Sorry. You can, however, still see the comments that did get published. I singled those posts out because, in my comments queue, the spam comments I talked about earlier targeted those particular posts. 

It's still strange to me that these spam comments were able to bypass moderation and appear directly in my queue as if they'd already been published, and yet they aren't appearing on the actual posts. I think I need to contact Google about what's happening, especially since I still can't delete the spam from my queue.

If you've tried to comment, and your comment hasn't appeared after many hours, let me know via email, and I'll see what I can do (which may ultimately be nothing).

ADDENDUM: another wrinkle is that I had apparently activated Comment Captcha long ago, and these spam comments somehow got past that, as if they'd been placed in my queue by an actual human brain and not by a bot. Curiouser and curiouser.