Nine Inch Nails makes me feel better. “I don’t feel anything at all,” Trent Reznor sings in “1,000,000.” The truth is, I do feel — everything. When Sarcastica wrote about a certain defamatory group on Facebook, I immediately felt like I had to have my say.

Sarcastica wrote that

Some of the stuff that was said was completely out of line, one guy commented on some girl’s photo saying “two words, down syndrome” and one girl was compaired to looking like a dead baby.

I immediately logged into the account I never use, because I wanted to report this group of people who think they have the right to be derogatory to people with physical and mental disabilities. I reported that group, and when I noticed that there was a mirror of that group, because the group owners had a feeling they were going to be deleted soon — gee, I wonder why? — I went there and reported that one, too. I joined the group long enough to write on their pathetic wall and tell them that they were low and should be ashamed of themselves, even though I knew well enough that I shouldn’t waste my time.

Still, when I get passionate about something, when something pisses me off this badly, I get so self-righteous. I feel the need to let the wrongdoer know that they’re being wrong, and even though I know it’s pointless and apt to start a flame war, I can’t help myself. As Trent Reznor sings in “Discipline” from The Slip, “once I start, I cannot stop myself.”

Perhaps this passionate aspect of me is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing. If I do something to Mike, like hang up on him, it’s nothing to me. I tell him to get over it. But if he or someone else does it to me, I get mad. I tell them how rude it is and it irks the hell out of me.

So I guess I need to learn how to focus this energy on Facebook trolls with low self-esteem, or maybe just keep my damn mouth shut.

Anyway, if you are a member of Facebook and disagree with the use of the C word and discriminatory, defaming and derogatory remarks towards others, please report this group and its “backup.” Please note that they also don’t exactly discourage racist remarks. People like this should not be allowed to treat others the way they do. I hate to bring any kind of attention to them, but I really feel that they should be booted. At the least, their little group should. Please remember that you should always treat others the way that you yourself would want to be treated and — as my mom loves to say — if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Period.