This is a great example of something I’ve been meaning to bring back up. Earlier I expressed how I feel about the opinions I usually see plastered up around this internets thingy.

Mac and Oliver Willis are both talking about some nasty words flying across the internet right now.

John Edwards’ wife has cancer… AND, there’s idiots saying horribly insensitive stuff about it over at Free Republic.

Now, to be fair, it’s Free Republic. They’re crack heads. Most of them represent what Rush Limbaugh would have been like had he not gotten ahold of some good drugs. They’re insane, angry, ignorant doody heads.

AND if you venture over to the actual thread, the ones saying that stuff are in the minority- even at crackhead central. That means the majority of the whacko Freepers are being cool about it. Any day of the week you can find people over there spitting the most ignorant vile crap- just as you can if you do a random sample of their counterparts, the Democratic Underground.

Both of those sites exist primarily to incubate that bile. THATS what keeps people coming back. So dipping into FR or DU to find garbage like that seems lazy to me. It’s like cops pulling people over at speed traps at the end of the month. It’s the 26 year old trolling the frat party for freshmen. Come on guys. You’re not going to surprise me with stuff like that.

I agree. That stuff is ig-nant. But so was the stuff I read at DU when the first waves of hostages were killed in Iraq. It’s always there. And it does not- I repeat not- discredit the political groups to which they belong. I like reading Mac. The stuff she says pisses me off at least once a day- but that’s why I read her. Most people who lean left or right are too emotional for me. Her stuff is intelligent and funny. I may not agree but I’m always interested. Plus those Women’s Lib gals are so cute. (that was purely to push buttons- laugh. ha ha.)

Serious tho. Go for the meatier stuff people. Or else next up I’ll expect to see, “look what I found over at the diet blog- they HATE CARBS!”

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