http://marketplace.publicradio.org/s...200703066.html
WARNING: To those who worry about such things, the title of this story is profane. Don't say I didn't warn ya (though it was censored when I heard it on the radio...).


But anyway...
I think this is actually common sense... but what was interesting I think is the myths we have about jerks being so useful... and smart.
This "brilliant but cruel phenomenon" he speaks of... we've seen it.
First thing I think of is the typical pundit: Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken... They all make sure to get in those extra nasty insults... and it's part of their appeal as if it adds credibility.
I think it's part of a larger phenomenon that people (often wrongly) assume that saying things simply and confidently makes them more true.
What do you guys think?
As if I need the opinion of a bunch of ignorant swine (Ha! That should give me a couple extra IQ points- I need all I can get).

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

I can be very insulting when I'm angry. I usually apologize for it later, though, and I certainly think my outbursts reflect what is negative about me rather than what is positive. I know that jerks drain my productivity, moreover. If one of them irritates me enough, I boil in a confused, repressed rage in which I get nothing done and then finally explode and take out my anger on somebody innocent. Hence I catch the disease, and in the past such episodes have set back my recovery from psychological problems for days. I can see how people with obnoxious personalities could lower the productivity of others, therefore.

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)

It's true! I had a run-in with a pair of women at the shops last night. They really got up my nose and so I returned a suitable response. I don't take lip from people - if they want to dish it they can deal with the result.

However, it got me in such a mood afterwards that I forgot the toilet paper and the rice crackers! Ack, I hate that

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins