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• Commented on Stonehenge: virtual 3D animation
  Very interesting! I must be missing something here - why aren't any newer buildings etc visible?...
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  All the people worth noting in AF's home town are white, middle aged men....
• Commented on Quebec solves H1N1 vaccination queues with Disneyland Fastpasses
  In Sweden some health care clinics have a similar system for phone calls. Instead of endlessly waiting once you have navigated a long menu, there is a menu with a few choices and then you get a recorded message: you...
• Commented on Goat rentals for clearing brush
  Any experience with this or are you just suggesting it from your suburban horizon? I have sheep and would not suggest them to any suburbanite. They need fences and daily care. Protection from dogs and other predators. Water, feed, shearing...
• Commented on Computopia, a circa 1969 vision of the future from Japan
  and in the future all students will be boys...
• Commented on Anne Frank on film
  "Karl Josef Silberbauer, the Austrian Gestapo agent who arrested Frank and her family, ended his days in comfort. Tracked down 20 years later by Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna, where he’d settled into postwar obscurity as a police officer, Silberbauer was...
• Commented on Report on a revival meeting for the creepy Process Church
  I too wonder about the dogs....
• Commented on Barefoot Burglar, 18, suspected of stealing planes, etc.
  Why front & center at BB? Admiration? If so I hope the next credit card he uses is yours....
• Commented on Exorcisms vs. schizophrenia drugs
  "From the abstract in the British Journal of Psychiatry: ... The patient underwent remission... despite previous evidence of genuine possession." So the British Journal of Psychiatry believes in "genuine possession"?...
• Commented on Wingnut extreme: Glenn Beck says "Story of Stuff" is Commie propaganda
  #14 BBC: Denmark 'world's happiest nation' ..."Dr Inglehart says that gender equality is also an indicator of happiness, as is rising social tolerance." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7487143.stm...
• Commented on HOWTO make mushroom shelves
  I second Marcel's words. Don't collect/sell endangered species - and if you aren't 100% sure of what you are collecting, leave it alone....
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  Fair enough if men and boys are forced to wear the equivalent. If not, no good....
• Commented on White Sands, Red Menace: Atomic age historical sf novel for young people that is sweet, sneaky, and exciting
  I was being sarcastic... sorry you didn't get it. Why call some people "girl inventors" if you are not calling others "boy inventors"? By making "girl" the descriptor you are saying that "boy" is the norm and that "girl" is...
• Commented on White Sands, Red Menace: Atomic age historical sf novel for young people that is sweet, sneaky, and exciting
  Hi Cory, What exactly is a "girl-inventor" and how is she different from an inventor?...
• Commented on Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down
  In light of the current financial situation wouldn't it be good if americans could get over calling their country "the richest country in the world"? Libraries are great institutions. Try raising a child without one. Or getting an education. Once...
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  The vagina is an internal organ. Aka birth canal. No matter how hard you look you won't see much of it. Lets see how many other female body parts you gentlemen can id - vulva, labia, clitoris... Calling vulva a...
• Commented on It's only rock and roll with Norah Jones
  She's a professional musician - and all you can comment on is her guitar strap and her shoes?...
• Commented on Dutch Schultz's secret buried treasure
  If he "was killed while taking a leak in a New Jersey bar" and "court stenographer was brought in to record his statements" that means the stenographer was brought to the bar bathroom....
• Commented on Straight Outta Mordor: Notes from the LA Fires
  Almost to beautiful to be a disaster......
• Commented on Why the Space Shuttle should always lift off at night
  What is the ecological footprint of these missions? Why do this?...
• Commented on BirkenCrocs!!!
  How are these recycled?...
• Commented on Robocalls become crime punishable by $16K per call fine
  Why exclude "Banks, telephone carriers"?...
• Commented on Five reasons why I like the Mountain Hardwear Napali
  how much do the people that make these make? LOTS of sewing involved....
• Commented on In America, it is increasingly illegal to be poor.
  "Wanna end homelessness? Demand a living wage." Pay a decent price, support local businesses...
• Commented on Fresh Greens: You don't need helicopters to kill wolves
  I agree with ackpht this is the elephant in the room. Every kid/person uses resources. Do the math. Your 6 kids will go on to have kids. And so on forever. See http://www.vhemt.org/The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement “May we live...
• Commented on Water drums for kids
  More plastic for insatiable, affluent kids "needs"...
• Commented on Philly's Homegrown Saint
  haunting instruments of self mortification???...
• Commented on Wikimedia's picture of the year
  Quite a lot of photoshopping......
• Commented on Yellow Oleander - another "Least Favorite Plant"
  Warning: Paralysis May Result http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/garden/21poison.html...