re: two minutes hate
(xeni just insinuated The Squad is a bunch of "grifters whose point is to destabilize the left and siphon off votes." i honestly think she is the dumbest single person to come out of the whole Wired/Mondo 2000 "goshwow it's all gonna be cyberrific!" crowd, and people like mark frauenfelder and rob beschizza give her real stiff competition...)