The Weasel King posted a link to the classic Five Geek Social Fallacies essay, which you have no doubt already read. If you haven't, and you're reading blogs, you really should, because you're bound to recognize some of what it says.
Of course, that article dates from 2003, so it wouldn't be worth noting, had one of the commenters in LJ-land not misread the title:
I first read this as "Five GREEK Social Fallacies" because boy howdy, the entire fraternity/sorority system is built on almost all these fallacies. Except Greeks don't see this as a problem.
What follows is a great spoof, and funny because it's true.
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