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• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  I hope they get Senator Harken to draw Iowa, and not Senator Grassley. Grassley thinks he represents Wall Street, so his map would be way off. At least he would be able to indicate where the 'bull' is....
• Commented on MAKERS US launch at Harvard Bookstore tonight, 7PM
  I just bought this and your short story collection Overclocked at Barnes & Noble yesterday. I'm really looking forward to reading it. Now stop going to bookstores and hunker down and write your next book! :)...
• Commented on Improvising a car fuse
  I had a Fiat once that would overheat in traffic and blow the fuse for the engine cooling fan. I always kept a couple in the glove box. Once a buddy and I were driving in downtown Chicago and the...
• Commented on Photos of remote birds killed by our trash
  Oh, THERE'S my lighter!...
• Commented on Eyeball matrioshke
  Am I the only one who thought of 'Ningauble of the Seven Eyes'? Anyone? Anyone?...
• Commented on Mouse inside a PC case
  I collect old Commodore computers, most of which have been stored in basements, garages, or barns for decades. Spiders and mouse nests are not uncommon, but the animals I encounter most frequently are dust bunnies! :)...
• Commented on Alice in Wonderland nudes
  "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea." - John Ciardi...
• Commented on Art Predicting Life
  It looks to me like she's sitting in front of her PC uploading naughty pictures of herself to the early internets....
• Commented on Ralph Lauren fires photo-chopped model for being too big
  Meanwhile, the French are working to ban too-thin models in their fashion industry....
• Commented on Afghan girl killed by Royal Air Force leaflet drop
  They used the 'unexploded bomb that turns out to be full of leaflets' plot on M.A.S.H....
• Commented on Award-winning assembly-language animation running on a classic Mac
  So... what you're saying is that a modern PC can now match the C64 and Amiga, two twenty-year-old Commodore machines? :)...
• Commented on SciFi became SyFy, may soon become SyFry
  Please tell me this won't interfere with their wrestling schedule! /sarcasm...
• Commented on Secret Identity party at Meltdown Comics in LA, Wednesday, July 29
  Suicide Girls. Playing Lois Lane. With a whip. This is disturbingly similar to some of my dreams....
• Commented on Father's day photo-shoot ends with cops pointing guns, photographer face down on tarmac
  I, for one, am glad our brave... oh, hell, it's not funny anymore....
• Commented on Vancouver cops affirm your right to take pictures
  Such a shame. Vancouver will now be home base to hundreds, if not thousands, of terror cells that now have 'rights' which endanger our freedoms and our children. /sarcasm...
• Commented on Kids lose their summer break due to impenetrable bureaucratic mess
  #24, that's the way I feel about public schools in general - it's just a way to legally pick my pocket to pay for babysitting for people who are parents. You can't seriously claim that those kids are getting an...
• Commented on Kids lose their summer break due to impenetrable bureaucratic mess
  Kids, welcome to the wonderful world of adulthood. Get used to it....
• Commented on Gadget Accessories: Are These Do's Or Don'ts?
  Well, you and I certainly shouldn't wear it. That's for sure....
• Commented on Art show fracas in Russia
  I'm too old to consider random obscenity 'irreverent' or 'arty' anymore. They'll eventually grow out of it and learn to say something relevant. Just let 'em blow off some steam. The best reaction to 'art' like this is to yawn,...
• Commented on Jack Kirby and Joe Simon story from "Strange World of Your Dreams"
  Freudian version: Penis envy....
• Commented on Rocket Making for Amateurs - Another Living Dangerously Art
  I grew up in the 50's and 60's, when kids (boys only, really) were encouraged to engage in dangerous activities: shooting, archery, rocketry, chemistry, etc. We were expected to learn and employ proper safety procedures. If some kid didn't, his...
• Commented on Eliot Spitzer explains himself
  You say 'politicians' as though they are different than the rest of us. There's a reason Jesus said, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.'...
• Commented on The Second Hundred Years of SOS Begins Today
  It's interesting to note that in the Morse code community there was some trepidation as to whether or not they'd win....
• Commented on Japan: Man Beaten Into False Confession of Child Murder Set Free After 17 Years in Prison
  Sorry, I forgot: /sarcasm...
• Commented on USB-powered baked-bean microwave
  Bwa ha ha ha ha! :)...
• Commented on USB-powered baked-bean microwave
  Am I the only one who has no trouble eating cold beans?...
• Commented on Terrorism is auto-immune war; war-on-terror does the terrorists' job
  As one who suffers from three auto-immune diseases (asthma, diabetes, and arthritis), I can tell you that this is a VERY effective analogy. By putting the body's defenses into overdrive and aiming them at the body itself, your defenses end...
• Commented on Old Jews Telling Jokes is Back
  I grew up on 50's and 60's TV, which was a pantheon of corny old vaudeville-era Jewish comics and their somewhat more hip & sophisticated offspring: Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, Joey Bishop, Red Buttons, Professor Erwin Corey, Rodney...
• Commented on Students who went on strike over CCTVs in classroom speak
  I am against universal surveillance. That being said, it is inevitable. When you have small surveillance cameras that can be cheaply mass produced and put everywhere, as we do now, the game is over. Technology cannot be stopped. Personal privacy...
• Commented on Japan: Man Beaten Into False Confession of Child Murder Set Free After 17 Years in Prison
  I am so glad we don't do this kind of thing in America....