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• Commented on De-touching the lollipop-headed Ralph Lauren image that prompted a legal threat
  New slang for emaciated skeleton people in refugee camps, and those dying of anorexia: "going Ralph."...
• Commented on Downward Facing Dollar
  Does this mean that we don't have to spend trillions on defense and project American power all over the world to keep the world safe for the rich anymore? Now that we're just one of the guys, can we now...
• Commented on The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind -- fantastic new book about a how a Malawian teenager harnessed the power of the wind
  I lived in Malawi for 7 1/2 years. I helped a Malawian learn a trade (optician) and paid for his first year of college. He has since worked his way through school and went back to Malawi to work. When...
• Commented on Free parking costs a fortune
  If you've ever tried to buy or build a commercial building, you know that the city requires you to provide a certain number of parking spaces, including one or more handicap spaces. In my town the city-built, free parking structures...
• Commented on Kids on Bluegrass
  I sometimes go to the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest in Agoura, California. I bring my stand-up bass because I find it easier to fake it on bass than banjo. Under the trees and among old-western-town movie sets, there are crowds...
• Commented on Photoblog of experimental aircraft
  What's this guy doing sitting on a giant Hershey's Kiss? Valentine's day isn't until February....
• Commented on Senator Jeff Sessions, hypocritical racist moonbat
  I'm a Moonbat. I resent you mislabeling Sessions as one of us! FEH! Ptui! Get your lunatics straight!...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  Caught In The Act. Egad. It would have been easier to take if Mom had said, "Keep it up and you'll go blind." I would have found all that trying-to-say-the-right-thing parentbabble permanently psychically scarring....
• Commented on An interview with Sarah May Scott
  When I was in college, my best friend was Joe Sims, a quad. I also had a friend, Norma, a lady with profound cerebral palsy, who you could barely understand when she spoke. They got around Berkeley in motorized wheelchairs....
• Commented on Sarah Palin, via Twitter: God told me to sue the internet
  Palin and Limbaugh are the sweetest candies in the box for us progressives. For years we've been trying to make Neo-cons face up to what they are. Viola! Two mirrors!...
• Commented on Scalia Scoffs at Calls for More Data Privacy Protection, Students Surprise Him With Dossier of His Own Data.
  One difference between Scalia and me is that he's a public figure and I am a small fry. There's tons of information about Scalia out there that was put there by others. He has millions of pairs of eyes on...
• Commented on Republican clown college photos
  Brings to mind Bill Clinton on George H.W. Bush, October 1992, after Bush called Clinton a "bozo," Clinton shot back, "Bozo makes people laugh; Bush makes people cry." This also reminds me of the film, "Clown At Midnight." A clown...
• Commented on Nuclear launch center "blast door" art
  I would have cartoon-illustrated a scene from The Bedford Incident, where after Captain Finlander has led his ship's crew on a harrowing chase of a Soviet Submarine, at one point, both boats stop and seem to be at a silent...
• Commented on "Marx was... second???"
  Most people make money as wages for labor. The smart people make their money work for them. The really smart people make other people's money work for them. And the smartest of all money off of money that doesn't even...