Captcha the Flag

I apologize to all Anonymous commenters here, and hope they will not be discouraged, but after getting 62 (!) anonymous comments on a recent post, all of them spam, I have decided to ask anonymous posters to resolve a Captcha in order to comment.  I have recently heard that Captcha is far from foolproof and (some say) ineffectual altogether.  No doubt some posters here have opinions.  But for the moment, these fragments I have shored against my ruins.