LOL Interwebz: The Blood of Your Tweets Cries out from the Ground
Twitter is the closest we’ve ever been to having a window into other people’s brains. And there’s the rub: our brains are terrible, horrifying places.

Twitter is the closest we’ve ever been to having a window into other people’s brains. And there’s the rub: our brains are terrible, horrifying places.

This is what’s weird to me about the Internet age. Instead of attacking ideas, we attack people.

News item: Man starts website ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com; is overwhelmed and disgusted within 24 hours.

By collecting data about behavior online, we learn what people actually do.

While most religions involve some sort of discipline, atheism is just a matter of not being intellectually convinced of something.

If a low rating on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes is indeed persecution (protip: it’s not), Cameron ought to “rejoice and be glad” about it, not stir up outrage (and with it, ticket sales).

‘The Bible Translated into Emoticons’ and The McMass Project are now our banners, proudly flying before us to announce to the world that Christians can’t be trusted with anything sacred, ever.

How strange it seems in these Latter Days that one Woman With a Butt could be so destructive; be assured, Dearest Internet, that I played no part in your demise.

Cosby has simply achieved a level of success where he’s essentially invincible, but there is hope beyond raging at the dark with some bolded Impact text on a cheesy photograph.

Here’s a postmodern hodgepodge of takes on #AlexFromTarget, from every imaginable philosophical angle.

Once you’ve started being a jerk, it’s pretty hard to stop.

It’s not a matter of “either rape is bad or the f-word is bad”; they’re both symptoms of a culture that can’t take sex seriously enough.

In a world of infinite colors, there are still infinite pictures to be colored.

It’s easy to think of yourself as a “good person” when the standard for “good person” is “don’t be a pedophile.” The standard set by Christ is a bit higher: perfect obedience to every command, and nothing else.

There’s an underlying cynicism in irony-drenched viral marketing, the same philosophy that undergirds the megachurch culture that made the ‘Left Behind’ franchise a hit in the first place.

I’ll probably stay on Facebook, because moving somewhere else would take time and energy. And this is what drives most of the evil in the world—not people deliberately messing things up, but people doing what’s easy.
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