The best part of Yahoo News are the comments, crazy ideas and arguments below the story.
Some of those are hilarious. But following an internet news story, I rarely read the comments any more. They always seem to quickly degenerate into lunatic fringe ramblings, flame wars and name-calling, and inevitably turn political even when there was absolutely nothing political in the original story. This is particularly true if people are allowed to comment anonymously.
I forget who, but a national newspaper columnist about 15 years ago coined a very à propos phrase for this:
road-kill on the information superhighway.
