As a fun extra, try and identify the five atheist Santas and post them in the comments.
(Thanks to Randy from CFI for the cartoon.)
Recently, I have been receiving highly critical spam comments. Here is one typical example:
What a waste of time. You’re [sic] poor english [sic] made this article hard to read. Learn to write.
I have to admit I am puzzled by the psychology of this. One form that spam comments take is to give an effusive but generic compliment (“Your blog is great!”), presumably to flatter me so that I won’t delete it. It never works but I can understand the strategy.
But I am totally baffled by what the spammer hopes to achieve with an insult.
And if you think that it is an exaggeration, read this description by Ted Rall about what people are going through.
This website highlights ambiguous sentences from letters of recommendation.
His disgusting weasel-worded campaign against giving gays their rights deservedly gets hammered on The Daily Show. The last bit It Gets Worse, based on Dan Savage’s It Gets Better campaign, is a thing of beauty because it is absolutely true. People who are on the wrong side of the fight for equal rights for marginalized groups always, always end up being despised.
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Do religious people really think that their god is impressed with such absurdities?
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Because I do not watch TV news, these crazy scares often come and go before I am even aware of them.
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