Pajamas Media "How conspiracy nuts, basket cases, paranoid loons, and other half wits can fool the rest of us into thinking they make perfect sense."
Here is the outline of the article:
"Caps Lock Is Your Enemy "NEVER EVER TOUCH THE CAPS LOCK KEY EVER AGAIN! I can use it because I’m a professional, but you crazy people just need to leave that key alone. This tip by itself will make a lot of you look 100% less crazy."
"i can haz proper grammar? "Write actual English sentences using real words and proper grammar. Capitalize the first word of each sentence. Use punctuation. there is no reason ur comment 2 a blog or column shud look lik ur a n00b at texting."
"No Long Screeds "And that’s why no will read what they write except other crazy people with way too much time on their hands. So keep it short. Pick one point, and write no more than a couple of sentences. Keeping it short also helps you police your crazy."
If you're at a TEA Party rally, enjoying the non-angry family atmosphere and someone arrives with a poster packed chock-full of writing, stay close by them. Especially if you see the press heading for that person. TD
"Proofread "So after you write a comment, don’t listen to the crazy in your head shouting, “You need to share this now! Now! NOW!” Instead, take a deep breath and read it over before hitting the submit button."
Speaking of which, Tunnel Dweller just corrected two egregious spelling errors he made in a Palin email post above. There is the hope that nobody noticed them, but if you didn't, shame on us all.
"Don’t Be Surprised When People Have Opinions Different From Your Crazy One
"And there are truthers who are so amazed anyone can believe the government’s story on 9/11...
"No Living Person Is Hitler, and the World Isn’t Ending "To a crazy person, every little bit of nonsense is a crisis of epic proportions that has to be handled right now (e.g., “If it isn’t recognized that Obama doesn’t meet my obscure definition of ‘naturalized citizen,’ then the Constitution will burst into flames and society will collapse!”)! "
Respond to an Actual Point and Not Just Something That’s Been Mentioned "Like if someone mentions when Hanukkah is this year and you respond with a rant about Jews controlling the banks, you’re not actually having a sane person conversation."
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..."If you want a role model, try to be more like Andrew Sullivan. When it was revealed in 2008 that Bristol Palin was pregnant and thus couldn’t physically have given birth to Trig Palin, even the most hardcore conspiracy theory nuts gave up on that one, but not Sullivan. He stuck with it despite it being “the government is concealing the fact that 2 + 2 = 5!” crazy. And yet he’s still treated by many as a serious pundit because he has the discipline to make it so it’s not blatantly obvious to a casual reader that he’s Kleenex-boxes-for-shoes, the-squirrels-are-spying-on-me, kung-fu-fighting-invisible-ninjas crazy."
ONLY A HITLER WOULD NOT PASS THIS ARTICAL ON TO 10 OTHER PEOPL. HOW ABOUT YOU ARE YOU A HITLER? OUR FATE DEPENDS ON THIS
American Enterprise Institute The Durbin amendment would raise costs for consumers, increase fraud, and kill innovation.