Typical

I think the internet may be destroying what hope I had for humanity. I keep making the mistake of reading user comments. This makes following the election an even more miserable experience than it would otherwise be. Same thing for the recent disastrous playoff series between the Wizards and the Traveliers. The political stuff is a little more upsetting, I guess, because of the magnitude of the thing and the scope of regular folk who are interested in the outcome. I realize, as with talk radio, the part of the audience that chooses to participate is probably not representative of the audience as a whole, but... I don't know. If I read one more comment about how Obama supporters drink lattes, I may well scream, and that would be fun for nobody.

I thought about scouring the world-wide web and finding some good examples of dumb comments, but a) it's not worth the effort, and b) I found something that probably sums it all up. It refers to an article on ESPN.com. It is a ridiculous story about a pretty lady in Nashua, New Hampshire who, in a fit of Yankees pride, mowed down a bunch of Red Sox fans with her car, killing a man. This happened outside a bar called Slade's. In many ways, it is the single greatest news story I have ever read. It demonstrates better than any dramatist could that at least some of us are animals. So I should have been satisfied just to read the article and move on. Instead I clicked the link for reader comments.

The most recent one, right at the top of the page, was written by someone named AdamPatsFan. Here is what he had to say:

Typical Yankee fan.
Classless.

Which I think may be going over the line. And also, now that I think about it, an awfully classless statement in and of itself. More than anything, though, I think AdamPatsFan has neatly encapsulated the state of modern discourse, and for that I pray that someone beats him in the face with a snow shovel until he goes blind.


Ivonne Hernandez, typical Yankee fan