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July 22, 2009

We need a new term for the first comment in a thread that kicks off the trolling. My suggestion: “This thread just went under the bridge.”

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You know how the “National Organization for Marriage” likes to claim that they are simply “defending marriage” and have nothing against gay people and that they aren’t in any way bigoted or… well, let’s look at their ad.

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