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• Commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  This reminds me of my first restaurant job, when I was a starving student, as a bus boy in a seafood restaurant on Boylston St. in Boston across from the Pru. The owner also owned a deli next door &...
• Commented on Sleep: more important than you think (Psychology Today)
  One of the most unfair things in life is that those days when you haven't had enough sleep & are in a foul mood seem to be the same days that life sends you the most idiots and assholes....
• Commented on Donald Rumsfeld's Strangeloveian Defense Briefing Art
  This Christian war porn looks like a lot of the kitschy shit that the wingnuts post over on the FreeRepublic website....
• Commented on White tea contains anti-obesity substances
  The white tea I've enjoyed most is Silver Needles. It's a little pricey as far as tea goes, but a little goes a long way, so it's still cheaper than good coffee as far as price per cup--especially since with...
• Commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
  PHIKUS @84. I grew up in Texas, and yes, you're right, it has its good parts & good people, but I couldn't wait to leave, and even now, every time I visit I'm always glad to leave. There's a cowboy...
• Commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
  Texas should just secede already. They are below average in income, gdp, educational achievement, etc. per capita. Plus they continue to embrace racism, fundamentalist religion and guns, and produce politicians that have done great harm. It would be a measurable...
• Commented on Easter Sunday
  Easter was the first Patti Smith record I got as a teen. The liner notes made quite an impression on young me... My favorite album of hers is Horses, which begins, memorably & defiantly, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but...
• Commented on Mall in China has McDnoald's and Bucksstar Coffee
  @#34 I remember the funny thing about chicken in Nepal is that, because they feed them fish meal, the chicken tastes like fish....
• Commented on Mall in China has McDnoald's and Bucksstar Coffee
  I went to a "Pizza Hut" in Kathmandu about 10 yrs. ago. It was not the real thing. The "pepperoni" pizza was topped with yak cheese and some sort of yak meat sausage. The oddly spiced red sauce tasted vaguely...
• Commented on Whatever Happened to Brett Smiley?
  Interesting... But more interesting for me was that under Related videos was listed a clip of the elusive Kate Bush on the same show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAvwX_eJco&feature=related...
• Commented on Olympics reach a new low: trademarking the Canadian national anthem and threatening lawsuits over competing uses
  Somebody should trademark the name "Ted Stevens" and then we can just call the person Senator Series of Tubes....
• Commented on New Yorker Film Festival: The 5 Scariest Movies Ever?
  Movie that scared me the most when I was, like, maybe 4: The Day the Earth Stood Still. So much, that I still still remember cowering behind the couch when they broadcast it on TV. Movie that's scared me the...
• Commented on Olympics reach a new low: trademarking the Canadian national anthem and threatening lawsuits over competing uses
  Fuck Social Security, pikers, let's privatize the language!...
• Commented on Screengrab from donut sleeper cell training video surfaces
  For those unaware of the back story: Rachel Ray wore a fringed, paisley scark in a Dunkin Donuts commercial, as seen in the photo. A right wingnut, agressively anti-Islamic blog, (Little Green Footballs), accused her of promoting terrorism by wearing...
• Commented on Ben Stein: "science leads you to killing people"
  A quote from physicist Steven Weinberg comes to mind: With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil -- that takes religion....
• Commented on Shenzhen travelogue graphic novel
  I'm totally fascinated by the rise of the new China. It's been a decade since I've been there, but even then there were all sorts of incongruent novelties among older, dusty relics. Walking through the streets of Datong, a grim...
• Commented on Security seals on the London Underground
  CKD (#32): I stand corrected about water landings. I had mis-rembered what I read about this in Salon's "Ask the pilot" column. He in fact criticizes an article in the Economist which makes the point I made, writing: In December...
• Commented on Security seals on the London Underground
  Regarding security seals on panels in airplanes, on a recent flight in Asia, even the side panels next to the seats had them. My young son (apparently bored with nothing better to do than cause an international security emergency or...
• Commented on Clever non-lethal mousetraps
  We had mice at a house I lived in a few years ago and I tried the stick-balanced-off-the-edge-of-the-counter trick. Put a bit of bait, like peanut butter, on the end, with a tall trash can below. It worked great at...
• Commented on Co-host of The View doesn't know if Earth is round or flat (video)
  Zyklon sez: "The worst part about the people who believe in those unbelievable things is that they're so concreted in their beliefs. They refuse to accept any other possible reasoning" That's what is so frustrating about trying to reason with...
• Commented on Drumpants: Percussive piezo pantaloons
  Not a new idea, but a cool one. I saw Laurie Anderson perform in the mid-80s and she had her body wired up with piezoelectric drum triggers. Very cool show. Sort of related, Future Man, the percussionist for Bela Fleck...