Mid-week blues? Fed up with work? Want to procrastinate even more than you already do?

Then ask yourself these questions as posed by Gene Weingarten, columnist and humourist from the Washington Post:

Have you noticed that, by and large, the online “Comments” to newspaper stories seem to have been written by raging lunatics? Most newspaper readers are not raging lunatics, but the loonies all seem to coalesce around the online comments. Why is this? All theories accepted here.

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Read some of the amusing and not-so-amusing “theories” proffered on his blog. But if you have a theory of your own, post them here.

It goes without saying that we’ve seen some crazy comments around here and on other Australian blogs. Except I just said it. Is it the anonymity to be as ragingly lunatic as you like? To shit stir? Shock value? Or do they really believe in what they write, no matter what?