Save Me From FLAMINGLY STUPID PEOPLE!!!!
It's like a really bad movie. Rather than Night of the Living Dead, I've been dealing with Day of the Fucking Stupid. Here are some cases in point:
1) Stupid loser in religious chat room mounts futile stupid strawman arguments with more non sequiturs than Bush's brain, then proceeds to tell me that he knows more about logic than I do because he teaches ethics in high school. I not so gently remind him that he was caught cheating on multiple choice tests.
2) Total dumbass who had been warned against posting copyrighted materials without permission, posts 30 or so essays written by others, including one written by MY MENTOR without permission to a message board. I nicely ask webmaster of message board to remove it before my mentor gets pissed. Webmaster ignores me. Now I must vanquish them with naughty copyright law.
3) Brainless git posts to religious clergy list about how awful another religion is. Someone else posts agreeing. I post that it isn't nice to focus on the negativity of other religions and we should focus on the positive aspects of our own. Further brainless git posts that the original posting wasn't negative at all. D'OH
4) Some total fuckwit has been trying to comment spam http://www.unnamedforeignintelligence.com even though nobody reads it.
So is it something in the water? Is it the fact that reading comprehension is the lost art of the 21st century, followed closely by following directions? Or are people really getting STUPIDER AND STUPIDER? Pardon me while I run screaming into the night.