Reply #10: Frustration combined with a keyboard that sends your thoughts to the world can be a heady mix.. [View All]

But I don't think it's all bad..

How many times have we all railed at what Matthews or Scarborough or Russert said? How many times do we cringe, and grab for the remote to mute the tv when Bush comes on tv?

Do we have a magazine gig? a weekly column in the NYT? a 3 hour radio show every day? a 1 hour tv show every day?

Do publishers line up to beg us to write a book? Is Hollywood filling our answering machine with messages beseeching us to call them back to talk about the movie they want us to do a screenplay for ?

OUR ideas are every bit as good as anyone else's, and NO ONE has EVER really listened to us..EVER.. They pretend to , with a hand outstretched as the ask for campaign donations, but when they are safely in office, they vote AGAINST the things that made us vote FOR them..Is it any wonder why the internet is "popular" and vitriolic, and profane?

Some people will always cross that line and some people just have some pretty weird ideas, but I would rather have them typing away in Mom's basement, or their loft, or their office or their family room, than to have them bottling it all up until the snap and murder their families, or co-workers.

At least online, one can find a group of people who will listen.. They may agree at times, and they may recoil at the lunacy of some people's rantings, but at least we ALL have a better chance of making a connection, and being heard, than we have ever had before.