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• Commented on Bollywood stars celebrating Ganesha festival
  Next up: Hollywood's Baptists at Easter? Iran's glitterati at Ramadan?...
• Commented on TIME on unsustainable farming practices
  Was it on bOING bOING that we had the recent Rolling Stone article on pig farming, and then a pig farmer's own rebuttal/defense? I can't find the rebuttal now, but as I recall the two pieces were interesting. LINK: (had...
• Commented on Michael Jackson Etch A Sketch artwork
  W-w-w-wow. The montage really gives a gestalt of Jackson. Not only is it impressive artistically, but as others have pointed out, keeping it so crisp in an EtchASketch is remarkable....
• Commented on Britain's loony rules for artist visas embarrass festival organizers
  "immigration, the last respectable bastion of racism" This sentence weakened the post considerably. If in a given set of particulars someone is using immigration as such, then yes, that is discreditable. But surely caution or even extreme defensiveness regarding immigration...
• Commented on French cops use racial profiling for stop and search
  I see a certain sense behind both sides of this upsetting matter: race shouldn't ever be a factor of any kind, and at the same time race often is a factor of a very immediately crucial kind. Police and citizens...
• Commented on Video reveals NYPD allegedly fabricating drug arrest
  a) I should think that the upstanding police officers should be glad to be filmed: it would prove they are doing their jobs well. b) What do those who don't want to be filmed have to hide? c) Do these...
• Commented on Dress made from meat
  This is how the Reavers got started, methinks. Turn me over, I'm done on this side. Nice to meat you....
• Commented on National Review cover illo of Sonia Sotomayor
  #4 Bardfin wrote: "You should be aware that it might be /seen/ to be racist and so proceed forward by treating the person in question as human and with dignity - in short, ask them what they prefer to be...
• Commented on Tiananmen Square, + 20
  My understanding is that the incidents we generally think of when we think of "Tianamen Square" are virtually unknown by most Chinese people, and that this is due to a deliberate act of forgetting spearheaded by the government. Many witnessed...
• Commented on Flamed Cars
  I love the handpainted flames! Much better IMO than stylized commercial ones....
• Commented on Eve Ensler and "Rape-Free" Gadgets
  "We create those atrocities through our consumption," says Ensler. What bollocks. The cause she is talking about deserves attention, global outrage, intervention, horror, etc. So should we evaluate the cause-- and our response to it-- based on her advocacy or...
• Commented on Cambridge study: DRM turns users into pirates
  DRM is folly. But it doesn't turn anyone into anything. People respond to DRM however they choose. As several have posted they responded other than piracy. Certainly DRM encourages people to believe that the legal methods don't work. In such...
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  Free expression? Can you freely: -Shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre? -Declare your race superior, or another inferior? -Express your doubts about the Holocaust? Of course you _can_-- but there will be consequences which will indicate how 'free' that 'expression'...
• Commented on Conference Board of Canada admits that its publicly funded, plagiarized, biased copyright "research" is junk
  Kudos to those who broke this story. And I think the discussion thereof is of some value, since the more foment and profile-raising the problem gets the harder it is to be swept under rugs. Ideally I'd like to support...
• Commented on Christopher Hitchens vs. Ken Blackwell of The Family Research Council
  (Disclaimer: I hold to the Apostle's Creed (http://www.crcna.org/pages/apostles_creed.cfm)) Atheism purports to be an apprehension of reality. Therefore I must not judge atheism based on its adherents, but on the evidence. If Hitchens is a frog, a drunk, or not (I...
• Commented on Superb fan-made Green Lantern movie trailer
  This movie should be made. It would be seen. By me. Several times. I find myself agreeing with more comments in this thread than any in recent memory. GL was one of the great comics in the old days! (No...
• Commented on Into The Subdimensions
  I have a hazy idea that Buckaroo Banzai dealt with folks from this kind of subdimension, didn't he?...
• Commented on Beautiful Clouds
  "We get so much beauty for free in life." Beautiful reminder. Thank you....
• Commented on Canadian think-tank spends tax dollars to plagiarize and regurgitate talking points from US entertainment lobby group
  Infuriating!...
• Commented on Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in <s>his</s> her locker
  Are the facts established as to whether this post involves a hoax or not? Seems the question is open. #48 Octopussoup: "I find it more likey the kid is just seeking attention and making it appear they are some brave...
• Commented on LA cop union buys stake in newspaper, demands critical writers be fired
  #21 Joe Mommasan: That pretty much describes everyone, no? (I'm not defending the trait, which isn't admirable.) _ _ _ _ _ #29 Iaminnocent: Very well put....
• Commented on Obama promises to suspend Habeas Corpus
  #6 anonymous asks: "Do you just let them go? What do you do?" Ever notice how in fiction the Good Guy seems to give the Bad Guys chance after chance to do evil again? They seem to consider it somehow...
• Commented on Old moonshiner and son busted for dope smuggling
  Death Sentence Range Table (Fig. 1) AGE_______SENTENCE_______DEATH? 23_________70 yrs__________N 53_________40 yrs__________N 83_________20 yrs__________Y 93_________10 yrs__________Y 103________1 day___________Y Get busted young to avoid death sentences. Simple!...
• Commented on Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO: The Guggenheim and Falling Water
  It's worth clicking on the link provided by #15 Ben. It's... really tiny. Not so cool, sez I....
• Commented on Organize a town-hall to talk about dealing with the screwed-up economy
  Good question, #1 Pukool. Seeing your sign-in name, all in capitals, reminds me of something. I've been reading Mary Croft's _Clobbered_ book (http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/freedom/mary_croft.pdf) and also browsing through http://getoutofdebtfree.org/ I don't know what to think about them yet. Some of the...
• Commented on Li'l Sideshow play sets
  More this, less Barbie, please!...
• Commented on Krassner: Stewart was right the first time
  #26 Patrick Austin: J. Galt's mischievous cousin. ***** The disconnect between many in leadership's definitions and the regular people's definitions is an ongoing source of huge problems. Terrorism/terrorists, criminals (war or other), torture: I find it hard to believe that...
• Commented on Chief Army Chaplain in Afghanistan distributes local-language Bibles, orders congregation to convert locals
  Since I know next to nothing about it, I have nothing to say about this particular situation. However, many of us who believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Lord of all humanity are in a position...