Comments on: Hate Mail? James Lileks Has You Covered

By: AcademicElephant

AcademicElephant — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:17:41 +0000

While composing my previous comment, I had a thought that the typing issue might be because of a lack of opposable thumbs, but then I took it out because to imply that moonbats have no thumbs would be mean and beneath me and I’m sure it would lead to some endless debate on evolution.

By: Knemon

Knemon — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:35 +0000

Heh.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:09:22 +0000

AcademicElephant, there seems to be a direct correlation between shrill rhetoric and typing skills, only 180 degrees, of course…

By: AcademicElephant

AcademicElephant — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:58:07 +0000

Do you think they type that way because they’re in such a hurry and have so many messages to send that they can’t type properly? Or maybe they only type with their index fingers? The whole phenomenon of unhinged hysterical leftist rage mystifies me. What can you possibly hope to gain by sending an email like that? It doesn’t exactly engender civilized debate, and I’m with TooManySteves–are there conservatives who troll liberal web sites and send hate mail? I don’t see it. As we would have said in high school

GFGEETT AA LIPHE.

By: Greg Bullock

Greg Bullock — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:50:54 +0000

Man, you should see the stuff I get!

I thought that taking the high road would keep the loonies off my trail and out of my in box. No dice.

Whenever I get a link from a big site, a tidal wave of hate mail is sure to follow.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:37:53 +0000

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By: BushisworsethanHitlerSatan&KennyG

BushisworsethanHitlerSatan&KennyG — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:19:28 +0000

One important less on writing effective hate mail that ive learned over the year IS TO SAY EVERYTHING IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND USESLOPU GRAMAR BECAUSE THAT CONVEYSE HOW TRUELY ANGRY YOU ARE!!!

By: too many steves

too many steves — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:53:46 +0000

You know, I hate to generalize but, shucks, I’m gonna: in my experience the most vitriolic, hateful, and foul-mouthed commentary and argument comes my way via people of the Left. This includes friends of mine that are seriously committed lefties (I DO live in Massachusetts, btw) including my public education employed sister-in-law who launched an expletive laced tirade at me one Thanksgiving when I suggested some sympathy for the Libertarian point of view.

This does not apply to all, and I don’t excuse all Righties, but I’ve noticed a pattern amoung the Left-leaning among us.