Why are people so upset about this guy? I mean who doesn't want to hack up those pretentious Hollywood stars. He really showed them, now didn't he?

Personally I find his ideas invigorating. Who doesn't love the Beatles? Or want to race their speedboats underground in a lost city?

"Quality of trolling", meet "new low".

It's actually my serious response to the gushing, blushing and fainting that is happening in the Iran thread.

Ah.  I've been away for a while.

Do keep up, wasabi grasshopper.

I've had better things to do.  Like reinventing teh intarnets.

Yeah I reinvented the interweb this morning and I figured I had a few minutes to think about important issues.

Seriously though, if you guys don't know about Manson, read the police reports and the witness testimony. It's pretty interesting, especially the part about the underground city that they were all going to live in for 1000 years during Helter Skelter, which was going to be this worldwide black uprising.

The Iranian guy is smart. By denying the holocaust and opposing the Great Satan US, he automatically has the support of a billion uneducated muslims.

I think there's only 1 billion muslims total and I'm sure that many of them are well educated. Not that state education matters much, regardless of one's personal beliefs.

People seem to mistake insanity with intelligence. That is my point with bringing up Manson.

According to various sources, which may or may not be accurate, anywhere from half to 70% of muslims are functionally illiterate.

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-daily/08-11-2005/oped/o6.htm

http://utah.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/17016.php

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1824455.stm

"Excluding Indonesia, the Muslim’s world literacy rate stands at only 53%, against 81% for China; Arab literacy is only 50%. Only 1% of the population owns a personal computer."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GH23Aa01.html

Not meant to slam Muslims, just meant to illustrate that radical leaders can basically make at least half their population believe anything they say.

What would that statistic be including Indonesia?

Because Indonesia's literacy rate is 83.8%. So if you include them, things don't look quite as bad. It's important to pick and choose from your data if you want to create truly alarming 'statistics'.