Tonight, I was reading some articles on Slate. For some reason, I decided to check out their discussion forum for articles to see what sort of conversations were happening. I figured that Slate is a reasonably erudite publication, so maybe there is some level-headed debate. How wrong I was!

Here are some of my favorite titles from forum posts from this page:
- Hey Jerk, England and UK Are Different
- ever try talking politely for awhile?
- Suicide Bombers Don’t Use Knives, Idiot
- Please pull your head out of your ass
- Hey, Retard, VT was a gun free zone
- Hey, Jerk, he wasn’t a citizen
- You are such an ignorant liar
- You Really Don’t Understand the Law
- Wow, You are Retarded
- You must be a compulsive liar…
- You are So Ignorant
- if i ‘think’ I am a dog, am I one?
- Try some actual facts
- Stop Exhaling Then
- Not surprisingly, you’re wrong
- You are a Blatant Liar and a Phoney
- You would be funny if you weren’t so pathetic
- You are an Illiterate Moron
- And You Know Nothing of Cons. Law
- Apologize for your lies

OK, that’s it. It reminds me of SNL’s Point/Counterpoint or Even Stephen from old Daily Show episodes. It’s relatively hard to find old clips these days, but I did find one of Even Stephen here. If you have more, leave links in comments!

At times like these, I’m glad I don’t have a TV. I can just imagine what the 24-hour news networks are like lately, reporting the same things every 15 minutes with pundits trying to tie Va. Tech shootings into their own crusades (gun control, gun rights, miscellaneous xenophobia, video games, etc). Everyone’s a Monday-morning quarterback and it’s a waste of time.

Yahoo’s going carbon-neutral this year. This will be quite an accomplishment, considering how much power data centers use, hopefully they can do it.

The best quote from the post:

Yahoo! going carbon neutral is equivalent to shutting off the electricity in all San Francisco homes for a month. Or, pulling nearly 25,000 cars off the road for a year.