For a long time now, one of my guilty pleasures has been a daily reading of Heather Armstrong's Dooce.com. Dooce is a blog that details the life of a lapsed Mormon who returned to Utah after being fired from her job in Los Angeles for her website.

Heather's site is very popular, for a good reason (great writing and brilliant photography) and lately she's been the subject of interviews and stories on ABC and AP amongst others. Every time she's featured in the mass media she becomes the target of what she calls Drive By Zealots.

Basically people come by her site and flame for all sort of reasons, as she says, "from people who hate Mormons, from people who hate me for ever being a Mormon, people who hate me because I'm not Mormon anymore, people who think I need to accept Christ into my heart so that I can live eternally in His Open Arms, people who CANNOT BELIEVE that it is legal for someone like me to have a personal website especially since my potty mouth is so full of potty, and people who have died, come back from the dead, and are delivering a special message to me from God that he is angry with me."

Today she has a post about one of more egregious emails she received. She enlists a team of friends to write responses. It's really quite funny.