Diagramming the inner loop of immovable commenters

I attended Catholic grade school, so I was highly trained to diagram sentences. Truly, at least six years of spending an hour each day to diagram sentences. A very sophisticated method of warehousing students, I now realize. The silver lining is that this ground-in urge to create diagrams has spilled over into many other areas of my life. For instance, I was thinking about those un-curious website commenters who so often frustrate me with their entirely predictable thought processes. How would that thought process look on a diagram? Would it look as simple as it so often sounds?

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The Economist says good riddance to George W. Bush

The Economist pulled no punches in saying good riddance to George W. Bush.    Consider the headline to this article:"The frat boy ships out."  The article has relatively few good things to say about the Bush Administration, especially when it comes to lack of fiscal restraint, but also the lack of…

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