I suppose I’m wasting my pixels here, but Salon has a story today about the error-filled e-mails designed to scare voters away from voting for Barack Obama. There are plenty at Snopes, too - so many that there’s an entire page devoted to them. Some are true, most are garbage.

Why is this a waste of pixels? Because about half of the people know they’re garbage and the other half believe them and don’t want to be told otherwise.