The Vent / Metro

If the price of oil is under $88, why is the price of gas still over $3.00? It's been that low long enough for it to trickle down to the gas pumps.

Score: 719

Someone thinks only 10 percent don't pay taxes. How cute.

Score: 511

If everybody in the Colorado theater had a gun, then the goofy shooter would be DEAD, not lounging in jail.

Score: 449

To all the people who simply "forgot" they have a weapon in their carry on: I hope you never leave your bag unattented around a child.

Score: 386

In the article about the "Occupiers" who are squatting in a bank-owned house, the words "breaking and entering" and "theft" were not used. Why is that?

Score: 351

Thanks Today Show for showing the bad guys how to break into a hotel room.

Score: 312

Sorry for those who have been burned by the airport puppy scam, but what are you doing shelling out hundreds and hundreds of dollars when across Georgia there are so many great dogs being put down in shelters every day?

Score: 301

If Rodney King were here today, he'd probably be saying "Can't we just all have one national anthem"?

Score: 290

Sue a public school for a bad furnace? Try suing it for the kids barely able to read.

Score: 288

My company can't afford a Christmas party this year because they made record profits and the CEO wants a substantial bonus and a raise.

Score: 281

Carrying a gun! I would rather have it and not need it. Than need it and not have it!

Score: 230

The vents make me want to vent.

Score: 224

Props to the City of Marietta! After what seems like 10 years of squabbling, the City of Marietta finally told long time Councilman Goldstein "NO you cannot build a five-storey building on the downtown square" just because you are who you are. Rules are for everyone including YOU!

Score: 195

Saw the movie Pearl Harbor with my 86-year-old mother-in-law. When the scene came showing the enemy planes taking off she whispered. "I was 15 when they did that and people here were really really angry afterwards."

Score: 188

Your company doesn't owe you a Christmas party.

Score: 168

Companies moving to Right-to-Work states; do we need to tell you anything more.

Score: 165

"If everybody in the Colorado theater had a gun, many more people than the shooter would have been killed or injured." Is that you Bob Costos.

Score: 160

If everyone carried a gun, think how polite we would all be to each other.

Score: 143

When I put on my turn signal to get in your lane, you speed up to close the gap - that's why I now use the element of surprise.

Score: 133

The minimum wage buys 30% less today than it did in the 1960s. Yep, getting fat off the man.

Score: 118

I thought the Christmas Season was supposed to be filled with peace on earth and goodwill towards men. I just don't see it in the most recent vents. Why can't people just be nice?

Score: 109

Can the people at my office stop putting food down a sink that does not have a disposal? I am tired of it taking 15 minutes to drain the water that I try to pour down it.

Score: 106

Obama's extra tax on highest earners will hurt the economy but won't help the deficit. Call it what it is, the "Hate Tax."

Score: 101

If you're an adult with kids and are working for minimum wage year after year, you need to look in a mirror and seriously evaluate your work ethic.

Score: 79

I think it's sweet how people express their anger based on absolutely no facts. Even the lovely church ladies in their Sunday best do that!

Score: 58

Life lesson #1: People hear with their eyes. If you don't have eye contact, don't talk.

Score: 53

Is it me or are we going from winning an election with "high voter turnout" or winning one by "low opposition turnout by making voters so angry" that they stay home?

Score: 30

The Friday paper's lead is about a "crisis in the GOP". That crisis has lasted for at least 75 years or more. A little late to talk about it now, isn't it? Besides, they'll never change.

Score: -61

Looks like the Tea Party is starting to dissolve.

Score: -79

Georgia's just one of the reasons we need a strong federal government.

Score: -227

Paula Deen is giving hams to hurricane survivors? What have they ever done to her?

Score: -416