We are, of course, amazed that our readers occasionally disagree with our brilliant and witty essays. In fact, sometimes quite a few readers think that The Outrage editors are wrong, misanthropic, idiotic, selfish, deluded, or all of the above.

Mother Outrage always told us that even the dull and the ignorant should have their say, so we've allowed space below for those dissenting opinions (and for shameless flattery).

100,000 years from now, this will all be as though it had never happened and as though man had never been.

Nancy,
Maybe you need to take a break from the DO and head for the Positive Press (http://positivepress.com.)

I am so frightened by the responses I have read --- where is the concern for those folks who lost their lives ---- where is the concern for the lack of response to this inhumane regard for the lives of these folks by the rulers of the land---by the rulers of THIS land. Human life has no value???????? I am feeling desparate about our world.

Re: Joseph M. Pena's comment ( The Catholic Church controled *sic* all culture during the middle ages..) The Moors among others, might have taken * Exception* to that remark. Ignorance is a sad thing.

OOOOOkay...teach me some good ole' K.J. English Mr. D.J. Toman. Shucks, I'm just a' ignorant midwestern hillbilly.

Mah dawg has fleas, mah ole lady is knocked up, an' mah kids got worms. We's got a fat possum abakin' on the cookstove so's we's eatin high up on the hawg toonite.

Tell me, Mr. perfect English would you be so kin' as to teach me some some o' them high falutin' words o' you'rn?

I'm appalled at the atrocious English one sees in these comment pages. Hasn't anyone been teaching English? Has anyone been learning it? Oh! I see! It's irelevant and I'm being insensitive. We are doomed to a mindless mediocrity.

Re: Lynn Hanson's comment: If you are going to have a "Daily Outrage", it would be nice if you changed the "Outrage" daily.

You go, girl. If I were you, I'd ask for a complete refund. Oops, I forgot ... it's free. Oh well, you get what you pay for.

For the edification of those of us who check the "Rage Back" frequently, could you provide us a list of proposed rages which you have submitted. I'm sure that, if the editors used only a fraction of them, they could meet your demand for a daily rotation.

The fellow who wrote "Out of America", I dis-remember his name, told it like it was. After spending two years in Africa, said, even with the advent of slavery, he sees nothing in Africa to ehnance his heritage as an African American.

Everyone's a critic or a comic.

Regarding the comment below:

Daily Outrage is updated three times a week, despite its title.

We have, however, been considering renaming it "The Almost Quotidian Outrage."

If you are going to have a "Daily Outrage", it would be nice if you changed the "Outrage" daily.

GOD, was watching and judging what was going on they will be punished for eternity if they don't give theirselves to HIM.

The anonymous post from the person mentioning Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership makes an extremely profound point.

Had the victims of this massacre been armed they probably would not have been the victims. Guns against machetes? Even a neanderthal would have been able to figure that one.

However, in this case at least, had the Tutsis been armed they probably would have been the ones committing the atrocities against the Hutus. So you see, arming these people would probably not prevent massacres from occurring. It would just make them more efficient.

This massacre is yet another in a long series this century, that are all linked by a common thread. As Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership research has discovered and documented in detail, every genocide in the twentieth century was preceeded by gun control that disarmed the citizenry. Rwanda is another in a long list that includes China under Mao, Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Turkey (against the Armenians), Cambodia under Pol Pot to name a few.

Had some of the people in the town 'featured' in this outrage been armed, the massacre could have been stopped. In fact the Hutus would probably not have dared to attack if they knew their victims would kill them.

So they are at it again. I thought the who-two's and the tootsies had buried the hatchet (besides in each other's heads) some time ago.

I think we are observing some real knuckle-dragging atavistic tendencies here. I can't imagine an upright, bipedal, homo sapiens hacking up an innocent child with a machete. It is beyond my ability to comprehend.

For that matter, I can't imagine an animal being THAT cruel to its young.

I know this is true, that this kind of thing has been going on for a long time,dosen't make it right or easier to here for some of us, but for some of our de-senceistised mass it seems that at its worse, its tit for tat...sadam hussan is hitler with a wider mustache...and neither one of them are popluar hero's...we have a world full of villians..

but haven't we always?...outside of pointing a gun we have communication problems,sometimes too much of it,never heard so much bad stuff sence i got a phone, television, pager and puter..and the daily...

Goethe should have looked at his own culture before making this quote. Germany was considered at the apex of civilized culture just before the NAZI's started their extermination program. There were many NAZI's that were highly educated and cultured and their systematic brutality has yet to be surpasssed.

The United States is considered an advanced society and inflicted mass genocide on dozens of Native American Tribes with the excuse that they were savages as well as condoned the enslavement of Africans.

Even our own intellegence services have wrecked havoc by training death squad leaders in the School of the Americas who then went and murdered thousands of people in Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Hoduras, Iran, The Congo, ect.

The Catholic Church controled all culture during the middle ages yet they encouraged the barbarity of the Crusades and the Inquisition. It is disheartening to see so much racism expressed on rageback related to this issue.

Sorry to tell you this folks, but this happens in cultured societys too. As a matter of fact this would probably not have happened if the Congo had not been overthrown in the 60's by the CIA and Mobuto Sese Seko was installed for thirty years. Sorry but culture is no guarantee.

Both good letters, albeit totally politically incorrect, which makes them that much more important.

I E-mailed one of the writers thanking him. I suppose this is something we will, increasingly, be forced to live with in the future although we really shouldn't have to.

In my opinion, we should have the privilege of living in a civilized, peaceful society free from the ravages of savages. If someone has a bumper-sticker or t-shirt that reads "I (heart) someplace---"

then they should be provided with a one-way ticket to that place since they prefer it to the U.S.A.

Outraged? Not really. Tribal hatreds and feuds have been a reality for thousands of years. This isn't anything *new*. We have our own Hutus in this country. Anyone remember the RIOTS of Los Angeles, better known in PC circles as the *rebellion*.

Where was GOD when all this going on?

None of these atrocities will be reported by the US main-stream media. Why not? Political correctness(PC) is the reason. According to the professional victim class and the hyphenated-american whiners, Africa is the land of milk and honey where the people live in harmony and the streets are paved with gold.

According to PC and the spineless wimps on the network news, all culture was stolen from Africa. The europeans wouldn't have made the great accomplishments without first stealing them from Africa. This leads to another subject--perhaps a future DO: How do you take a societies culture away?

Culture is not a possession (like an automobile), it is a way of life. You can copy a culture but you can't steal it as you can an automobile.