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• Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
  @Gloria Canada and the US are far ahead of Scandinavia (and Europe generally) on racial integration. I mean, Middle-Eastern people changing their names to "Svensson" or the like so that they can get a job interview isn't unusual there. In...
• Commented on Conservative children's book vilifies Nancy Pelosi
  We've lost 1/3 of the faculty at my university in the last 18 months, and the only reason why we didn't lose another 1/3 is because of federal stimulus spending. Same goes for K-12 schools. I don't understand being deficit-obsessed...
• Commented on Science Question From a Toddler: Omnivore Dinosaur
  "I arrived home this evening and asked my 8 year old son who was a paleontologist for halloween..." That itself is awesomeness....
• Commented on Goldwag: The Sarah Palin Conspiracies
  Well, Sarah Palin did have the thing about Putin rearing his head over Alaska or some-such. "I can see Russia from my house" would have been preferable....
• Commented on Filmmaker John Hughes has died.
  I'm sure there were the same sorts of haters when Mr. Rogers and Jim Henson died. Oh well. It's sad, indeed. Those movies were incredibly meaningful to me as pre-teen/teenager in the Chicago area. I was old enough to appreciate...
• Commented on Tom Hanks trash can
  I lol everytime I think of "I'll take the rapist for 200, Alex." Hee....
• Commented on Hammer as "cure" for constipation?
  So, are the tools intact? Or is it the case that he rectum?...
• Commented on Massive dance-number wedding entrance
  Ratdog @54 FTW...
• Commented on Holy Vending Machine
  Just in case anyone hasn't seen Chick tracts: chick.com...
• Commented on Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
  I was the only one in my 8th grade class who knew what was in _The Valley of Horses_, until I opened it to a good section and passed it around the class....
• Commented on Neutrally buoyant balloon
  The owls are not what they seem....
• Commented on Walter Cronkite, RIP.
  Roger Ebert has put up a short piece about Cronkite that summarizes well what he meant to American news. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090717/PEOPLE/907179995...
• Commented on Newly discovered daguerreotype of man who had iron rod pierce his skull in 1848
  Alan Alda talks about him here http://www.pbs.org/saf/1302/video/watchonline.htm...
• Commented on Walter Cronkite, RIP.
  He had a series in the 80s on the 20th Century. Looking back, I only can find the series he did through the 1960s, so maybe it was reruns of that. Anyway, I was 12 or so, and really not...
• Commented on Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí's Destino film
  I love the music. Then again, I'm an old man in my 30s....
• Commented on Time-lapse of 1990 LA mall
  @ 16 ADAM I find your knowledge of our local malls disturbing--how does one know malls in Glendale and Redondo and Sherman Oaks?...
• Commented on Scientists tour the Creationism Museum
  FWIW, what the young-earthers believe is that no species has ancestors of another species. There is intra-species evolution. This is why they're obsessed with denying the existence of transitional fossils....
• Commented on New images of the lunar surface
  My question is that of Telecustard....
• Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
  Ok, so remove any instance of the schema "prove x doesn't exist" and replace it with instances of "give strong evidence that x doesn't exist." Atheists think that you can give strong evidence that God doesn't exist. They appeal to...
• Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
  @TDAWWG Now that I read that again, I was just skirting *simpliciter*. Yes, well, as soon as the State of California axes my job (the forces of evil (here, California Republicans) take out yet another philosopher), you can hire me...
• Commented on Michael Jackson and the "Zombieconomy"
  The intertubes have tripled my live show consumption. I know about more shows because Internet publicity. And, wonderfully, I know many more bands than I did in the 80s. Had I only known how incredible some of the non-mainstream stuff...
• Commented on Frazetta Meatcard challenge results
  So where is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog?...
• Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
  Btw, the best stuff in Dawkins can be found at Cracked;'s 9 Badass Bible Verses http://www.cracked.com/article_15699_9-most-badass-bible-verses.html...
• Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
  _The God Delusion_ is a dreadful book. Thomas Nagel's and Alvin Plantinga's reviews of it aren't to be missed. (Google around and find the Dennett vs. Plantinga audio from the APA last Christmas.) Re: Proving a unicorn doesn't exist. It...
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  A couple good posts from Ezra Klein, who writes about healthcare for the Washington Post. http://preview.tinyurl.com/crmkty http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=12683...
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  To be clear: Awards haven't gone up. Insurance premiums have. But those aren't driven by larger damage awards....
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  "one of the biggest medical expense categories is malpractice coverage and settlements." And that hasn't gone up in real terms in 20 years. In many states it's gone down with "tort reform." New canard please....
• Commented on Waterboarding used on pot suspects, says London police officer
  @Anon 29: Jose Padilla...
• Commented on Wacky gilded pyramid house in Illinois
  I too grew up right near this. (I wonder if I went to HS with some of the posters here.) But I knew the Onans mostly for their ubiquitous advertising for new garage doors....
• Commented on China: State censors block all Google services
  As long as Google doesn't hand over dissidents. I still won't use Yahoo for that reason. Bastards....