terraformer's Journal: I am proud of this...

I normally don't write in my journal but this is something I felt I needed to share. Notice how polarized the moderators (and by extension the readers of /.) are with regards to Bush and support for his policies and with regards to free trade. Since no one is really going to read this I will leave it up to the reader to analyze the email below but basically there are four comments being moderated, the first set is from yesterday and the second et seq; is from today and the story on Hubble and the shuttle. Notice the polarization between flamebait and insightful...

        From: [e-mail]
        Subject: [Slashdot] Comment Moderation
        Date: February 7, 2004 7:07:32 PM EST
        To: [e-mail]

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