I don't visit the hate-blog Little Green Footballs, but I did see my name there once when I googled myself. The comments were not nice. (They'd found my photo on the front page of the Albuquerque Tribune, where I was identified as a Dean supporter. They thus assumed all Deaniacs were flakes. I wanted to ask if they thought Congressman Jeff Flake was also a Deaniac.)
Anyway, I found this quiz (via Scribbling Woman) disturbing. You're asked whether a pro-genocide statement was made by a commenter at LGF or a Late German Fascist. With my personal nemesis Ann Coulter on the cover of Time, who spews a similar brand of liberal-hate as found on LGF, I wonder if this is what the founding fathers had in mind when they guaranteed freedom of speech.
I'm guilty, too, of not tempering what I say in cyberspace (though I've never advocated extermination of vermin, only the verminization of the exterminator). Language is a powerful thing. Those of us who use it as our primary weapon should be careful of how we load it.
