People are strange

Do you think people are generally meaner these days than they ever were? Or do you think it's a different kind of nasty? People are far more personal with insults now, and I'd say on the whole we are more fearless when it comes to standing our ground or lashing out than we ever were before.

And they need no encouragement. Leave a harmless, though pointed, comment on a website (Andrew Collins' - posts since deleted, if you're interested) and all the nutters come out of the woodwork knocking some poor guy because he's dares to tout around for work, albeit unsolicited and perhaps a little misguided. Okay, I started it, but only because I get fed up being inundated with emails like that. But it doesn't mean I think this particular person is a bad. He's only trying to make a living after all.

But there are those who don't get that. Some people should be ashamed of themselves.