Breaking news.  Folklorian historians have discovered today a new trouble that's been lurking about Pandora's Box for some time.  Historians refuse to speculate whether it was hiding deep in the box the whole time. Opinions are split as to whether it was present since the box was originally opened hiding its identity or whether it is a new trouble somehow recently generated by Pandora's box.  Folklorian scientists were understandably shocked this weekend when they discovered "The Internet" crawling out of Pandora's Box and sunning itself on the lid.

In recent years I have noticed that more and more the internet is being used for trolls to fling their poison from the refuge of "virtual" anonymity.  More and more on various social networking sites I have read blogs, comments on blogs, and just general posts filled with hatred.  Hatred toward gays, hatred toward women, hatred toward minorities.  Hatred in politics, hatred in religion, hatred toward science and a myriad of other foaming vitriolic barks.

Understand something as you post from behind your moniker of "Snuffalupigus-with-a-boob-job" or whatever other witty internet persona.  You are not some internet Robin Hood standing up for the rights of your imaginary victimization just because a few virtual presences agree "That's exactly right."  You are a troll shouting obscenities from behind a rock to a chorus of "Here! Here!" from some pebbles nearby.

We all want to be heard.  Often we lose the signal in all the noise.  We miss the message below because of disturbed ripples on the surface.