One of the many things I've had reinforced in my time posting on forums and blogs is that people take themselves way too seriously. A joke is posted, and suddenly someone crawls out of the woodwork to cry defamation, or to bore the community with a list of supposed facts. Here's some advice, and a few guidelines, to help people stop looking like jackasses:

1.) First, calm down. Really, pop some pills, take a shot of something strong, meditate or whatever works to shift down a few gears. Ranting about EVERY LITTLE THING that doesn't fit into your world view will shorten your average lifespan by a good ten years.
2.) Your facts probably aren't facts. Unless you have indisputable scientific data accurate to 99.9999% accuracy, you don't have a fact. Polling random samples of people does not facts make, neither does the testimony or written word of supposed experts in whatever field you are ranting about. Professor Stephen Hawking, renowned physicist and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (the same position held by Sir Issac Newton) is one of the greatest minds of our time. Professor Albert Einstein, whom almost everyone has heard of, was the top expert of his field. BOTH of these men were wrong about supposed 'facts' and theory. Many times. Some expert holding a position at Greenpeace isn't going to impress people much, no matter how many times he's spouted his beliefs.
3.)You're NOT right. Im not either, and neither is he, she or anyone else. NOBODY is 100% right all the time, heck most people probably don't hit whats real and what isn't 80% of the time. People see the world completely differently, and nothing you say, no matter how true to you it is, will change their minds because youre wrong.
4.) Appreciate the moment. We live in exciting times. The internet has gone global in the last few decades, the first ever communication generation is growing up, and many of us are the last of a dying breed... the last to remember a time when the world wasnt wired. We stand on the brink, each of us, of a global revolution, the previous age of man is passing, the new age has arrived. Sometimes you've got to stop yelling "Get a horse" and really just sit back and soak it all in, including the joy, the sadness and all of the wonder.

Well, thats my rant. Dont take it too seriously, because after all, I could be wrong.