Today we learned that most Americans don't blame violent rhetoric or guns for what happened in Tuscon. This is very confusing! Very confusing especially for one commenter, who raised an interesting question.

Today we looked at the rekindled Flight 93 memorial Muslim controversy and sighed and shook our heads and threw up our hands. Well, most of us. One commenter was proactive and hatched an idea for a true, beautiful memorial.

Today we looked at how drug-happy Reed College might be prosecuted for student druggery. This led one commenter to reminisce about their own college druggy experiences. They had way more fun than nerdy theater kids, we can tell you that.

Sometimes the Comment of the Day is a Good One. Sometimes it's a Smart One. Other times, like today, it's just a Slightly Odd But Entertaining One. (In the Venn diagram of CotDs, this one also hits Crystal One.)

Every day we must take a second to stop obsessing about nerd fantasias on island themes and look at comments. Funny comments, sad comments, mean comments, and, very rarely, religious comments.