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Commented on Radley Balko on NY Times photo: " I can’t really conceive of a scenario where it wasn’t staged."
Don't worry about it, Takuan. Teens are reckless. It catches me off guard when I meet people who think the photo would've been staged....
Commented on Radley Balko on NY Times photo: " I can’t really conceive of a scenario where it wasn’t staged."
I'm not sure how I survived my teenage years, but we'd swap drivers while driving. Usually one would slide under/over. We also did it by crawling across the roof of the car and coming in through the driver's window. Getting...
Commented on 1978 Sex Pistols poster up for auction at Christie's is a fraud?
#20. My punk fliers from the late 70s, 80s, 90s don't give years. Even new stuff doesn't give a year unless the flier was done by someone as Sellable Art rather than just making a neat looking flier. And that's...
Commented on Stinkum from fridge full of putrid cow-orker chow causes AT&T office evac
The article on the Mercury News also says cleaning chemicals were mixed which is what caused the problems. I really wish that was mentioned in the AP article. Otherwise instead of just being a joke, it would be a joke...
Commented on Road rage among senior citizens
The comments have a couple from family members of the old guy who hates being called an SOB. One says the other guy instigated it, in part by pulling out the gun! The next time someone pulls a gun on...
Commented on Early devices for "rhythm method"
Ha, I remember being shown these in the 1980s at the Jesuit high school I went to. Too bad they didn't give them out, I'd love to have one. Maybe I'll check ebay and save a search....
Commented on Repo Man with LARPers: "Unhand Thine Prius!" (ridiculous video)
You don't call in police when repoing. It's a fun, exciting job. I always loved doing it (San Francisco up to Vallejo). Drive around bored shitless most of the time looking for cars and then swiping them. You get a...
Commented on Crazed Costume Shop Owner Pwns Local News Guy Investigating Cyberstalking Charges
@34 I thought it was pretty funny, but I'm glad the reporter went to jail instead of name his sources. I wonder how often reporters in the US name names instead of going to jail....
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Commented on Meaning of radio station call letters
They left off local favorites: KDVS (K-Davis) at UC Davis, and KYDS (El Camino High School's radio station). Once I listened to the sounds of silence on KYDS. No static, but no music. I left it on the blank station...
Commented on Max Sprecher's antique straight razors
I use a safety razor that used to belong to my grandfather (no, I didn't kill him to get it, I like his series of strokes do my dirty work). It's a nice shave. It is a bit of a...
Commented on Photo gallery of Mike Tyson's abandoned house
Up to when he mentally totally lost it, he was a great fighter. Following the link, this page has bigger and more photos: http://fishki.net/comment.php?id=38484...
Commented on Les envahisseurs de l'espace
I saw them when I was in Varanasi, India and Kathmandu, Nepal last year. They just make sense in India....
Commented on Searching for an Honest Bank
I just moved my money to Golden1 Credit Union. Wells Fargo bought Wachovia but I was in India so I suffered through that at the time. Still, next time I go overseas, I'll put money back in Wachovia because every...
Commented on Own a Frank Lloyd Wright home
Too bad this wasn't posted last week. The house was open on Sunday. I'm not sure how many people went. I would've but I had to go to a kid's birthday party. Dang 8 year olds keeping me out of...
Commented on NY Times and 'Serious' Journalism
I really liked this story about drag racing in Saudi Arabia. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/world/middleeast/08drift.html?_r=1&hp The conclusion that people who race cars are depressed, suicidal, homosexuals boggles my mind. I'm going to go put on a dress, take some prozac, play some Russian...
Commented on Making remotes easier to use
Hey malinda, I don't know if you check back for a response to your troll bait. I've rebuilt engines, automatic transmissions, and carburetors and I give up pretty quick on a remote. I rarely watch tv, mostly movies on DVD....
Commented on Legend of "pull tabs for dialysis" lives on
Ha, at least I have my stack of Indians shooting stars on my Tootsie Roll wrappers. I'll be buried in candy!...
Commented on Bike with band name sticker shuts down airport
Not that anyone cares at this stage, but here's the wiki page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Bike_Is_a_Pipe_Bomb A great band. I have one of their stickers that's been on my bike since forever. They've been around since 1996 or so. Hell, I live a...
Commented on Bollywood portrait as holiday card
Man, that's great. They've been in Delhi too long if they think the non-megaplex theatres are a dying art. There's 3 huge movie industries there and India is filled with single screen theatres. Now I'll have to go back to...
Commented on Mark Dery on Samm Bennett
Is there a way of checking old google? I'd like to know how often "slumdog" showed up in news stories from a year ago compared to today. That comes across as mean, but it's not meant to be. I've just...
Commented on Phantom Corsair from 1938
Sorry, robulus, but aerodynamics had been used before this came out. There's not much in cars that hadn't been tried by about 1920 (except computers). The 1934 Chrysler Airflow is a popular one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Airflow My favorite is the Stanley canoe...
Commented on iPhone repair company iResQ: No bad-service refund unless you delete blog posts complaining about the bad service
Thanks for that! I also live in Sac and have been looking around for someone to fix my iPod 160. I'll avoid these guys. Core Care is out after screwing me over on an iBook repair. I was leaving the...
Commented on Mistrial declared in 12-year-old girl's alleged assault on police officer
It'd be nice if there was a federal organization that just investigated police. It'd cut back on the covering your own back stuff. If it's true that it is only a few bad apples, it'd do a lot to clean...
Commented on Every Swear Word on Every Episode of the Sopranos, Ever, in Chronological Order. (video)
If I wasn't so lazy, I'd like to put together a video of people riding explosions mixed with yelling, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!". Oh, and the occasional "I can see my house from here". That's been on my back burner for nearly 20...
Commented on Lux Interior, CRAMPS founder, has died.
In 1990, I met Lux and Ivy at Tony Alamo's Western store in Nashville while driving across the country in my zebra striped VW Thing. We kept just missing the Cramps and we hoped we'd be in the same city...

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dudemanguy commented on Radley Balko on NY Times photo: " I can’t really conceive of a scenario where it wasn’t staged."
This isn't too bad actually. I was driving south on the 15 from Murrieta to San Diego one day and saw a guy with his feet up on the dash (diagonally from the drivers seat to the dash in front of the passengers seat) with a newspaper open across the steering wheel, strumming a guitar and trying to drink a cup of coffee. And in the leftmost lane. May the FSM strike me dead if I lie. No doubt this idiot has been selected against by now. Hopefully he didn't take anyone else with him. I hope he didn't get...
Nelson.C commented on Radley Balko on NY Times photo: " I can’t really conceive of a scenario where it wasn’t staged."
I'm amazed at the leaner-over drivers who think that just because they can hold a steering wheel steady while the guy in the driving seat performs his acrobatics, they think they are in control. What happens when something unexpected happens on the road? When a fellow textomaniac and his friend drift on to the wrong side of the road in front of you? When a car in front brakes suddenly? Do you really think that two people, one of whom isn't paying attention, have enough co-ordination to cope with even minor emergencies on the road?...
Oshkosh John commented on Radley Balko on NY Times photo: " I can’t really conceive of a scenario where it wasn’t staged."
I've been in a car where the driver was steering with his/her knees while rolling a joint!...
kmoser commented on Radley Balko on NY Times photo: " I can’t really conceive of a scenario where it wasn’t staged."
"As journalists, we are not here to judge or to direct, but only to observe and tell the story." If you're not here to judge, why did you photograph the kids doing what you judged to be a clearly dangerous act? The idea that the press should be neutral is a load of nonsense. First, they're not. Second, they shouldn't be. They should call it like they see it. Otherwise they're lending credence to the ridiculous things that happen every day....
PappyCaligula commented on Searching for an Honest Bank
Don't think Credit Unions OR small-er banks are necessarily the way to go either. I live in South Carolina and the banks that sound small have had some mysterious massive spurts of growth. Adding tons of services and many more branches without the ability to actually service the accounts they've guarnered. It makes you wonder IF some larger bank actually controls the smaller bank/loaned them the cash for their expansion KNOWING that alot of folks believe the BIG Banks are only for BIG Biz. Echo that with a local Credit Union that is FULL of incompetents. Refusing to release direct...

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