If you too dislike the navigation strip

Found in an answer by jennifer to this request on the support boards:

Thank you for your feedback. The "navigation strip" contains useful links that make navigating through LiveJournal easier, and was designed and implemented because data indicated that people had problems locating frequently-used links from individual journals. It's also designed to help make it easier to see if you're logged into LiveJournal from an individual journal, which was one of our most frequently-requested features.

Previously, the navigation strip was still being developed, and users were given a chance to opt into displaying it. Unfortunately, information on users who tried the navigation strip and decided they didn't like it wasn't stored, due to an error in recording user preferences. Because LiveJournal staff is now comfortable that the navigation strip is ready for production release, they turned it on for all accounts except for the ones that had actively dismissed the "Did you know" box about the navigation strip. I'm sorry that your preference to not display the navigation strip wasn't stored; this is a one-time situation, and it won't be turned on for your account again. You can control your viewing options, including whether or not the navigation strip is displayed, at http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/

#~@<|%& ugly useless piece of clutter... (mutter, grumble, something something about kids these days)

Things I want to believe are satire

The Prairie Muffin Manifesto, which a bunch of you have already been alerted to by either this Slacktivist post or this one. There are things in the PM Manifesto I can sympathize with, even empathize with--but for more reasons than I am willing to type out this close to bedtime, I really wish I could believe it was someone's idea of a joke.

And linked to by thousands of people before me: Murder without conscience, wherein an anti-abortion-availability blogger writes as if they took an article in The Onion seriously; and this one, a response in which the same blogger seems to indicate a complete inability to comprehend the concept of satire. Annoyingly enough, while a few of the commenters on both posts are funny, most of them are just juvenile--demonstrating that many people, no matter where they stand on the important issues of the day, haven't really matured since they were six years old.

Just now noticed there's a third post by the "The Onion article is totally like how pro-choice people are!" guy: College Ejumacated. Honestly, a big part of me believes that that blog is satire (and pretty good, too). But another big part of me remembers that there are people who genuinely are as clueless as this blogger seems, so I just can't decide either way.

Sometimes it's almost fun to live in a world where real people's opinions collide with satire in such colorful ways.