Calling out bullies, cowards and trolls

I would like to think that my parents raised me well. I would like to think that being an only child and a first-generation American raised in a multicultural household helped make me the person I am today. I would like to think that being exposed to people from different countries, religions and socioeconomic strata at a young age taught me tolerance.
But there are some things that I simply cannot and will not tolerate. I have no patience for stupidity, hypocrisy, arrogance, ignorance, bullies or cowards of any kind -- especially those of you who engage in hateful behavior and shameless vitriol while hiding behind a computer screen.
So imagine my disgust when I read one of my favorite blogs this morning. In today's post, the author said that she'd gotten a lot of negative responses to her last entry -- one in which she expressed reservations about voting in U.S. elections. From what she told us, some people called her a "retard." Some even said that that they hoped she would die.
So now I am talking directly to those of you who engage in that kind of behavior. Yeah, you know who you are. Please don't pretend otherwise. It insults my intelligence -- and it makes me mad.
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am the sweetest, nicest, most wonderful person on the face of the earth -- until you make me mad. And then I am a nasty bitch -- so you probably don't want to do that.
But I digress. The bottom line is that it's easy to think you're all big and tough when you're sitting at a computer. Yeah, you're such a big talker -- such a know-it-all. You probably think you're the smartest person in the room, which is pretty pathetic considering you're probably sitting by yourself with no friends, no social life, a dead end job and a dead end life. Does calling someone names and putting them down make you feel better?
Let me tell you something: If someone says something you disagree with or you don't like and your first reaction is to call them names or use foul language or put them down, it speaks volumes about your lack of intelligence, among other things. Ordinarily, I wouldn't even waste my time or my breath on anyone like you -- but as a wise man once said, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If you don't know who said it, look it up. It's on the Internet.
Until next time, "That's life..."