observe my bitter ranting

I was reading something about people who want to ban flag burning. Those people make me crazy (my own brother included). All that money spent campaigning and energy complaining and for what? The value of American sacrifices in death and in life aren't embodied in our flag, they're embodied in our hearts and memories. The flag is just a symbol, nothing more. As proud as I am of it as my country's symbol, I'm far more proud of what it represents, and that won't go away because someone burns a flag in protest. So let's have some re-organizing of our priorities here, shall we? If we're going to start putting a cap on free speech, let's start with the kind of free speech that at this moment injurs living, breathing human beings, not just your sensibilities. If you're going to ban flag-burning you'd better be prepared to ban pornography first.

Now I'm not sure I'd be happy banning either of those because the slip of that slope really bothers me when I think about it, but I can give you a strong guess that most of the people who are going to demand we be forbidden to burn flags are going to be men, and most of them don't want to lose their porn.

::shakes fist at world, growls, and goes back to studying::

I'll use my evil Envy Homunculus icon for this post

Is it bad of me that when I'm feeling frustrated and happen to be looking at ff.net, I feel an overwhelming urge to mock people who write stupid stuff?

Mocking isn't nice. And I'm generally a nice person. But sometimes I can't *help* it! I'm already frustrated and the badfic is just THERE waiting to be mocked. Begging for it.

Like so: ( taken from the first page of the Avatar category at the Pit of Voles )

Avatar ficdom isn't special this demented way. I just happened to be reading a lot of it lately. ::headdesk::