Metafilter can be a delightful place to visit, great links insightful comments, a nice place to spend some time. Other times it's just the same old names posting the same old crap. Trolls (posts designed push everyone's button's no new content), double posts (it's already been posted and discussed), self posts (post referring back to one's own site) in short just so much bullshit. My son Chris pointed out a passage from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra from the section entitled "On Passing By" which is apropos. First though a short explanation is in order. Zarathustra is the prophet of an ancient Persian religion called Zoroastrianism. Nietzsche uses Zarathustra as a character in his most famous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. One day Zarathustra is passing by this city that he does not like and his ape, there is this character in Thus Spake, called "Zarathustra's ape". He is called this because he has gotten good at expressing himself as Zarathustra does. Anyway he jumps out and goes into this long rant about how the city sucks and how the people are swine in a way similar to one of Zarathustra's earlier speeches in the book. Zarathustra somewhat annoyed by the negativity then says that he is indeed nauseated by this city, but that is why he no longer spends time there. He says, "This doctrine, however, I give you, fool, as a parting present: where one can no longer love, there one should pass by." I think I'll take his advice and not pass by Metafilter quite so often, or at least be more selective when I do.