[Smogger]

My experience is that most of this comes from folks who have signed up in the last 6 - 12 months, but perhaps that's just my imagination.

My experience is that there has ben a considerable uptick of bigoted, inarticulate so and so's spewing bile. I would peg it about the time the Rathergate story broke, generating a lot of free publicity.

[anniegetyourgun]

#50 seems to agree. I think you're both on to something.