Your Outrage Is My Marketing Department
By tomorrow these Rush Limbaugh comments about the Virginia Tech shooter being a liberal will explode everywhere with indignant hissy-fits galore. As if the shooting wasn't bad enough, we've had to suffer through a week's worth of jackassery where these deaths were used for political or personal gain.
It fascinates me that when people complain about folks like Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh (and in the tech sector John Dvorak for that matter) they fail to observe that your outrage is how these professional trolls market themselves and spread virally.
I can think of no better test of character than one's ability to quickly identify asshats, marginalize them as irrelevant, and move on with your day (be it inhalant abuse or whiffle ball). Of course I'm commenting on this cultural ass dreg, so I've already shown you I completely lack any substantive character.