The Vent / Metro

GPA, IQ ? The real secret to success is work ethic.

Score: 597

Jesse Jackson Jr. wants to be remembered for what he did right? Man, you stole a quarter of a million dollars, give me a break!

Score: 532

When a sports team starts dictating fiscal policy to the City of Atlanta and its taxpayers, I say send the team a Bon Voyage card, and wish them well in Los Angeles!

Score: 531

Some elderly folks are so eager for friendliness that they are easily taken in by fraudsters. There should be a Devil's Island for those filthy scum!

Score: 464

How can congress have the nerve to freeze government employees wages, but they just voted themselves a raise!

Score: 464

People who don't own small businesses sure do think they know a lot about them and their owners.

Score: 391

Lets face facts, some people just aren't good enough workers to pay a minimum wage to.

Score: 364

If I ask you out, and you just can't make it without scrolling down your little device, don't plan on getting asked out again.

Score: 354

The traffic jam of those buses leaving the dock area after the stricken cruise ship docked was caused by the buses of lawyers arriving at the same time.

Score: 340

Thank you, WSB Radio, for occasionally throwing in some programming among the many commercials! It's becoming harder and harder to stay tuned to your station.

Score: 326

Wal-Mart wants to know where are all the shoppers and their money. Maybe they are tired of buying cheap Chinese crap.

Score: 300

If you agree to provide a reference for an unemployed colleague, then please do so when contacted by HR departments. The reference request you ignore means the employment application will never advance. If you don't want to be a reference, say so.

Score: 280

Is anyone really surprised that during a time of calling for "fairness", Obama is more than willing to give a multibillion-dollar tax break to Facebook?

Score: 253

Shooting bald eagles in Arkansas isn't a good way to exercise your second amendment rights.

Score: 235

So Amazon is not paying sales tax to Georgia, maybe they looked at the 43-million plus in tax delinquencies for Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Forsyth and Gwinnett and figured they need not worry.

Score: 217

I just heard a Tea Party spokeswoman say the GOP does not speak for the Tea Party. So, why doesn't the Tea Party just form a separate party?

Score: 206

People as a whole fall into two classes: Scavengers who see the resources around them as finite and they want to be the last rat on the heap, or Survivors who band together realizing that kernels of corn have the potential to become fields of corn and increase everyone's well being.

Score: 186

Postal delivery stopping on Saturdays? Won't notice. Where I live we are lucky if it shows up before dark on any day.

Score: 169

DeKalb County: Our schools are a mess, but we have great trash collection and recycling!

Score: 133

I cringe every time announcers or commentators on TV or radio say "Having said that" and "as well". It's overworked. I recommend reading "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White.

Score: 98

Worry about North Korea? Leave them alone, they'll starve themselves out of existence buying rockets and such.

Score: 98

It will be a grand day when you all learn the difference between common and proper nouns.

Score: 95

Is Carnival going to reverse the order of their "Never again" commercials?

Score: 92

Someone explain why Waffle House institutes a security surcharge at Underground, but they are being robbed in the burbs?

Score: 21

The Vent has lost its way in a morass of political diatribe.

Score: -8

Despite voter suppression, the 102-year-old lady exercised her right. God bless her.

Score: -20

Boy Scouts, ask what would Jesus do?

Score: -50

With all that's going on here, we need a new TV series called "Downtown Atlanta."

Score: -72

Funny how Africa, Columbia, Mexico, Korea, and the people in the Middle East always get blamed for America's problems. Why aren't we looking at Americans?

Score: -95

I know you want to believe it because you'll believe anything--the asteroid was NOT caused by Obama.

Score: -118

The Indiana school which wants a "gay-free" prom by excluding them should also exclude the promiscuous girls, drug using boys, children of divorced parents, and anybody not white. That sounds fair.

Score: -122

I think some of you have been watching too many zombie apocalypse shows/movies. Here's a hint...civilization is not about to collapse, so you can stop hoarding your guns and canned food.

Score: -153

How stupid do Republican Senators think we are? They filibuster Chuck Hagel's nomination and then try to tell us, "This isn't a filibuster." The only people that buy that line are the Fox News audience.

Score: -184

Marco Rubio was so full of hot air that he got thirsty.

Score: -329

Quit complaining about the new stadium! People with big ideas always meet opposition from people with no ideas.

Score: -421