Thank you, Alexandra, but I don't have much confidence in the flagging system. In fact, I see that NCR Comments often serves as a platform for members of the alt-right/Catholic far right, who game CC moderation and find company with the resident reactionaries who've trolled these threads for years. A steady stream of bigotry of one kind or another winds its way through Comments unabated. I'm taking off for Lent, and it will be a relief.

Utilitas has been around as long as I can remember, and he's been spamming anti-Islam histrionics ever since the election season started. Obviously NCR tolerates it.