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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Today’s Dilbert comic strip
Is this not hilarious? We’ve all come across people who debate like this on the I’net – LOL.
Thanks to Sev for sending along the link 
On a related note, I’ve been on the hunt for the link to a site that I’ve seen so many times in the past but did not bookmark. It was a site that had cartoonish drawings for different types of Internet debaters. There were probably about 25 “types” – and they were all hysterical, and people all of us have come across before online. If anyone has heard of this site and has the link, please pass it along in the comments or over email. (Update: Here it is Gracias, Sev)
BTW, consider this the weekend open thread – I’ve been out and about today and blogging will probably be light until this evening.
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I think this is what you’re looking for ST:
Flame Warriors
YES! That’s it. Thanks, Sev
I like the one that says:
“Arguing on the Internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded.”
Sis, I had the one from the previous day: ‘Nuff said!
I saw that one too Dana, and it sure rings true. I’m old enough that my first online experiences were back when the Internet was called ARPAnet, and you had to work for the DOD or be at a major university to get online. And, no easy to use browsers, you had to master the user unfriendly interfaces of tin and vi in order to get onto the discussions on Usenet. Believe me, it was a different world back then. The access requirements coupled with the user interface set a much higher bar for access than the “tee hee hee, I can use WebTV” crowd could ever master, and it made it a much nicer place. Even the most violent of flame wars were at least clever and witty, kind of like a cyber Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker, usually pretty darned entertaining. Nowadays, it seems the height of argument is “F You!” I’ve watched the deterioration of the neighborhood, Usenet is mostly worthless now, and only blogs and forums with moderation are really worth a darn anymore. But, the changing technology has brought us blogs and forums that are very worthwhile, like ST’s wonderful blog here, so on balance it’s an improvement, even though we have to wade through the marching morons at times.
Soon all this will be transformed like magic into a single word.
As for the story in the link, a single word already exists for the multi-culti theories and monkey see, monkey do mentality. For those unfamiliar with farms, the word is a byproduct of that kind of business as well as those who subscribe to having one’s own country turned on it’s ear for the sake of being PC and multi-culti.
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=102706C