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Opening Arguments

Be nice

The Internet is full of meanness? Who knew?

There's a whole world of people out there, and boy, are they pissed off.

On political blogs, the invective flies. Posters respond to the latest celebrity gossip with mockery or worse. Sports fans set up Web sites with names that begin with "fire," hoping coaches, athletic directors and sportscasters lose their jobs.

And though there are any number of bloggers and commenters who attempt to keep their postings and responses on a civil level, all too often interactive Web sites descend into ad hominem attacks, insults and plain old name-calling. Indeed, there are even whole sites devoted to venting, such as justrage.com (one screed there was titled, "I don't give a flying f***, so f*** you") and mybiggestcomplaint.com.

On the other hand, what do those moronic half-wits at CNN know? The Fort Wayne blogosphere is as polite as a church picnic, and anybody who says otherwise better not show his face around here.

Posted in: Weblogs

Comments

Bob G.
Mon, 11/03/2008 - 2:07pm

Yeah, Leo...that's (expletive deleted) tellin' 'em...!!!

;)

B.G.
(Polite? MUST have been ALL that square dancing we did as grade school kids - "bow to your partner, bow to your corner"...very polite indeed)

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