All I wanted to do was find some chemical data on the Internets

And I discovered that somebody shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) at a Safeway in Tuscon. Of course I started following the story, in part because yesterday I heard Rep Giffords being interviewed on NPR and she sounded suspiciously pleasant and reasonable. Who is this asshole?!, I wondered. What was he thinking? So of course I had to check it out when NPR published an update with the gunman's name and a link to his YouTube channel. I watched all the videos available, and concluded that his cognitive processes were seriously disturbed. (Also, the music sounded really creepy.) Luckily for me, the Interweb is full of people who have all the answers and are eager to share them (and tell you how stupid your opinions are), sometimes even in a semi-coherent manner. Less luckily for me,
some of these helpful people seem to be batshit crazy. I would like to stop reading stupid comments on news sites, but I can't seem to look away,* even when I'm ready to stroke out. Here are some of my favorites.

AMo on Jan 8, 4:19 PM said:
From his YouTube site:

"Books:
I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno."


Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf stand out, the others are from a typical high school reading list.

Assuming that this information is even accurate, I think it's interesting that so many commenters cite his mention of The Communist Manifesto as proof that the shooter was left-leaning. By that logic he must also be right-leaning, because Mein Kampf and We the Living are on his "favorite books" list, too.**

Wolf Pack (ThisIsMyBoomstick) wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/jared-lee-loughner-gabrielle-giffords-shooter_n_806243.html

Odd that the shooter seems more towards the left than the right. Likes the communist manifest, mien kempf, is an atheist. Doesn't sound like a bible toting, right wing lunatic to me.

*it's like when there's a clown at the hospital to traumatizevisit the sick kids, and I can't take my eyes off him even though I'm fucking terrified of clowns.
**Although apparently Hitler's writings are overflowing with "left-wing" ideology, according to some of the fine folks on Sarah Palin's Facebook.

Cj Webster The man, Jared Lee Loughner was a LEFT-WING NUT! He listed the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf has two of his favourite books. He didn't like Rep. Giffords because she was a Blue Dog Dem and was too moderate. He wanted a communist or socialist revolution. Don't try to fool us Libs, he was one of you. He was not a right-wing nut job like you want us to believe.