Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Column: Virtual Baggage

Feel down? Vaguely depressed? Frustrated? Have you lost your self-confidence? Struggling to find your voice? Paranoid? Angry for no reason? Convinced everything is terrible and will never get better? You may be experiencing an acute case of virtual baggage caused by repeated exposure to keyboard bullies, the tone police (the online equivalent of the fashion police), conspiracy theorists and crazy political or religious extremists. 

When you have face to face disagreements, get cut off in…