I have to admit, every time I hear of the WBC pulling one of their tasteless stunts — which are, in my mind, tantamount to hate crimes — the first urges that cross my mind are violent, retributive ones. Fortunately, as I get older, I try to calm down and rethink my primal impulses before acting or saying anything. It doesn’t always work out, as some of my friends will attest, but I’m slowly getting better. I just have no patience for, well, a lot of things actually, but especially shock groups like the WBC, and I’m constantly fighting an internal battle against even giving them a second’s worth of my attention and thus validating their antics. But the story I linked to below is just too delicious not to disseminate to anyone reading my blog.

I rarely come across stories that demonstrate people taking the high-road in situations created by morally bankrupt sociopaths like Fred Phelps and the members of WBC. But I was impressed to read THIS STORY today on how Twitter’s San Fran office dealt with a protest organized by the controversial “church”. It was silly, fun, and humorous and it completely neutralized WBC’s bile-laced rhetoric. The news folks that showed up barely paid attention to the WBC and instead focused on the counter-protest. We should all be thankful that there are creative, level-headed, positive people out there who can counter the worst of society so effectively without giving them what they want – confirmation.

It’s stories like this one that put me in a good mood.