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The VT shooting rampage is horrifying.
The responses of Slashdot commentators are only slightly less so. The shooter at VT, reports say, was a disaffected loner who may have felt out of place in society. That seems to describe the hundreds or thousands who bicker back and forth on Slashdot.

From “A Politically Correct Lexicon”:
Hir (hirs): Gender neutral for him and her. At Wesleyan University, incoming freshmen are instructed to use gender-neutral pronouns in campus correspondence. As one person wrote on the university’s online Anonymous Confession Board, “I am usually attracted only to people of hir original gender, rather than hir intended gender. As such, [...]

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- I bought one of these things. It is big and slow. On the other hand, it was cheap, Seagate is reliable, and 400 GB! Wow that’s a lot of space. And anyway, it will be out of sight.
- We have given up on DCAccess’s wireless Internet service and are going to try Comcast, again. [...]

So Heather Havrilesky (aka Polly Esther) takes a while off, gets married, knocked up, loaded up with womanly hormones, and yet is still able to pound out awesome advice like this:
So, you might guess that you’re just in a relationship that makes you a little crazy OR that you don’t know how to be soft [...]