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A Twitter pet peeve of mine

As my 96k+ Twitter followers should know by now, I specialize in snark/satire, especially on the political front. Roughly 95% of the responses I receive are appreciated. These consist of: Likes, retweets, compliments, additional snark, humorous gifs, etc. There is one type of response which slightly aggravates me, however: the accusatory add-on. This is when a person comments on a joke with something like, "You forgot x." or "Y. There, fixed it for you." Can you imagine if this is how fans/audience members responded to stand-up comedians? George Carlin: "Bowling isn't a sport because you have to rent the shoes." Audience member 1: "Hey, you forgot about sticking your fingers in holes!" Audience member 2: "Yeah, or sometimes your balls get stuck!" Audience member 3: "...and what about those bumpers?" Audience member 1: "Jeff, is that you?" Audience member 3: "Yeah! Tony?!?" Audience membe...

Facebook Officially Sucks Right Now

I'm no longer a member of MySpace, as I got a little tired of the spam and being phished (as were many of my friends). I gave Twitter two tries, but don't see much point in reading about what people had to eat for lunch, what they're wearing or that they're bored at 2 o'clock in the morning and have been unafraid to bash that rather regularly. That brings me to Facebook. The site is far from perfect. There are some slight annoyances I've had here and there, either with the site itself or people on the site. Since last night, though, for whatever reason, the site has run slower than me after drinking a gallon of rubbing alcohol (aka everclear). I did read about a hacker group set out to destroy the social networking site in November, so perhaps the site is running very slowly in light of this news, as new security measures are being set. There have also been some new features that have been added, so it's also possible that there's some kind of gliche a...