Many mornings, I can be found in front of the computer, soaking up my daily dose of hate and bitter idiocy, compliments of Craigslist Rants and Raves. From time to time, I really, really want to respond to some of them. I'm compelled by a powerful force: my natural, human drive to prove my mental and ethical superiority to these yokels, whom I will never have to meet. Not that I necessarily believe in my moral and cranial high-grounds, but everyone has an 'ego' (the colloquial, not the Freudian) and mine, at times, is a handful.
However, it is my policy to not to reply to these posts. Firstus, while you post anonymously, you do have to put in an email address, and answer an email before you can actually post. I know this because of a recent lost and found ad. Since this is the case, I'd still potentially get bombarded with emails from hateful people if my post was suffiencently clever and contrary. And then there's the thought that I will be caught out in an error, either factual or grammatical, or I will grossly misspell the easiest of monosyllabic words. This is an issue, because I am internally proud of my fairly tight grasp upon the English Language. I do make mistakes. Oh, yeah. Not immune to those. But I do hate to do it in a public forum, even anonymously.
Long story short- Occasionally, when there is a CraigsList post I am especially drawn to responding to, I will be posting it here. Sometimes I will provide commentary as to why a post made it, but there are others I will let speak for themselves. I hope you enjoy them, the way I enjoy them.
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