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I've been checking regularly on the website current.com. I usually check on the show Infomania which dissects the news from the week, and has editorial pieces on things like twitter. My favorite portion, of course is "That's Gay" where they discus a particular facet of gay culture as it's displayed on TV. Most recently, "Coming Out." Brian Safi, the host, listed several ways to come out, like the "Coming Out Kamikaze" where you reveal that you're gay, and call someone else out too. Like, "I'm gay. and so are you!" Funny stuff.

Current.com also posts news from other sites. They might not always be the biggest news stories, but they take stories from a broad variety of news websites, including science. Below each news story, there's an opportunity for people to comment on them. Now, I've never been one to make comments on these sorts of things. I've just never seen the point on anonymously posting an ill-informed opinion about whatever the news story is. Mostly, it seems the people that do base their comments on their emotion reactions. They become so overcome by reaction that they fail to recognize that half the words they've written are misspelled and sometimes their comments don't even make sense.

The same goes, of course for YouTube where people become ever more indignant and they don't even have to read anything to become enraged, which I guess drops the intelligence level for the people posting the comments. The funniest part of all of these comments is when people comment on other people's comments. I particularly like the ones where some liberal will make a statement about freedom of speech or something and someone will say, "you shoud move to north korea where people lke you fit in!"

For Example:
wow, gore vidal is an idiot. movies have no thought? america is a dictatorship? habeas corpus no longer exists? america does not follow due process of law? and my favorite... his definition of "liberal"... favoring legislation tending toward greater democracy? really? that's the definition of liberal? what a joke. more like "favoring legislation, period." look at the all black suit and his smug "things fall apart" opening statement. this guy has his head completely up his ass.

ChuckBleedinNorris (3 days ago) 0 Reply
You sir, are a fucking idiot.

Gore Vidal is one of the most brutally honest and accurate men ever to walk this planet.

You will never ever hope to hold the amount of wisdom this man does in his little finger.

Mattenlamb (2 days ago) +1 Reply
Excellent grammar, fucktard.

So what began as an interview with an aging intellectual who has lived through 70+ years of life 2 World Wars, Vietnam, a dozen or so presidents, was good friends with John F. Kennedy, etc has degenerated into a shouting match between a fucktard, and a fucktard with poor grammar. What compels people to make such comments on a Gore Vidal interview must be the same reason why they would plaster their car with bumper stickers explaining, in detail, their political opinion on everything. These same people, to top it off, pay an annual fee to have a license plate explaining some detail about their life. Like " IHRTMYKD" I heart my Kid? or I hurt my Katie? I don't get it.

Why do people believe that anyone gives a crap about their opinions?

Please remember, there is a Comments section on this blog. Feel free to express yourself, fucktard.