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• Commented on Advisor: Don't let social networking ruin your social skills
  I'm not Roman Catholic, but those of you arguing that an Archbishop has no more experience with social structures than a dog washer are fooling yourselves. Pastors and priests are still the go-to guys for vast ammounts of westerners who...
• Favorited BBtv -- Jack Chick, animated: "Somebody Goofed," by Syd and Rodney on Boing Boing
• Commented on Touch me I'm slick: the shape and the sound of Steph Thirion's <em>Eliss</em>
  Level Seven is way hard (of course, I said that about three and five too). I hope he has a way of adjusting difficulty soon. I think part of the problem is the time-slow power-up. When you hit it, any...
• Commented on iPod Shuffle gen 3 disassembled
  @6: I'd like the ipod touch better though if i didn't have to turn it on and slide the slider just to advance a song. Apple buds are very frustrating though, so its too bad you get locked in more...
• Commented on Fox to strip special features from rental DVDs
  Also, some of us use netflix because you can take a long time to get around to watching the extras. When I rent from a local place, I rarely want to spend the immediate time watching the extras, but I...
• Commented on Toy Fair: Surgical instruments for mutant plushies
  Lead testers? How much?...
• Commented on Al Gore addresses US Senate: don't let economic crisis get in the way of addressing global warming.
  All we have to do is char our agricultural output every year and bury it. Sounds simple enough. Any why does Gore imply our economic recession has anything much to do with oil prices? (which are low *because* of a...
• Commented on Creepy public service comic book about bike safety (1972)
  Letting the devil mess with you is the way God teaches valuable lessons. Seriously. See the Book of Job....
• Commented on Creepy public service comic book about bike safety (1972)
  "especially those new international signs that will help make our highways safer!" He'll learn all the signs. The international signs are supposed to be intuitive to help non-english speakers know what to do when they see a sign, right? So...
• Commented on Glass pool table is an expensive, bad idea
  "The big failing to me, design wise, is the boxed in ball return channels. It would seem to me that part of the 'fun' of a glass top would be watching the balls travel through the ball return mechanisms." That's...
• Commented on Witchdoctors defy ban on selling albino parts
  Get Sara Palin's pastor friend on the case! He takes care of witchcraft in Africa! (Yes, the political issue is a non-sequitur, but I think its interesting when the other side of something everyone guffaws about comes to the fore.)...
• Commented on James Lovelock and climate change
  If Lovelock has such a simple solution, why do we waste our time with horrendous solutions like alternative energy, carbon caps, and sustainability changes that ruin the economy? Sometimes I think I may be a climate denialist, but if Lovelock's...
• Commented on Drew Friedman: Obama portrait for The New Yorker
  He looks like those other presidents on the dollar bills....
• Commented on Obama will defend telco spy immunity
  What this says to me is that maybe telco immunity is a good idea if even the most progressive of presidents sees a good reason for it....
• Commented on Musicians against music torture
  Playing music at someone isn't "torture", nor is yelling at them or making them stand up for 2 hours....
• Commented on Musicians against music torture
  Assuming nobody is arguing that playing annoying loud music at a subject is itself immoral, why would you want to take away a MILDLY uncomfortable tool: wouldn't the authorities just use *more* uncomfortable, and therefore immoral, methods Seems counterproductive....
• Commented on How to spend $53,826 a week without really trying
  #12: An equally, there is nothing wrong with being disgusted by and wishing harm towards anyone for any reason whatsoever....
• Commented on Photos of riots in Greece
  Wow. So what will Greece do to restore order?...
• Commented on Where money comes from: fractional reserve and debts
  22: What if we had a gold standard AND no fractional reserve? 19: Maybe I missed something in your example, but I see $5 with dad and $5 with little brother, not $15. 21: what's with the insinuation that Grignon...
• Commented on Prop 8 - The Musical -- starring Jack Black, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Marc Shaiman, and many more...
  20: EH: No, I'm saying that Christians who eat shellfish eat it for different reasons than they have for retaining opposition to homosexual acts as sinful. The implication of that would be that Jews who avoid shellfish are doing it...
• Commented on Prop 8 - The Musical -- starring Jack Black, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Marc Shaiman, and many more...
  Um, Black brought up Leviticus first?...
• Commented on Prop 8 - The Musical -- starring Jack Black, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Marc Shaiman, and many more...
  Cute. But the "shellfish is an abomination" counter-argument that Jack Black/Jesus trots out is a tired fallacy. There are two very different words in the Hebrew bible. One (shequets) is used for shellfish in Leviticus 11, and a totally different...
• Commented on Merriam-Webster's 2008 Word of the Year
  The majority of these lookups were for high school papers that start "Merriam-Webster defines socialism as...."...
• Commented on An infinite collection of Macquariums
  When will someone make a flatscreen ant-farm?...
• Commented on The Sarah Palin Turkey Video
  78: she doesn't babble in this video 86: You have a lot of "beliefs". Do you have any facts? She's a hunter and has been photographed in front of dead bloody moose. Its her cultural context. Hunters are by definition...
• Commented on The Sarah Palin Turkey Video
  Noen: You're telling us a lot about yourself and not much about Palin's thinking. She wasn't filming this for tots to watch, and the "sticking it to the liberals thing" is not in evidence....
• Commented on The Sarah Palin Turkey Video
  Dudes! Seriously! She isn't crazy and nothing she says here is extraordinary. Turkeys dying in the background is funny, but doesn't reflect poorly on her at all (why should it? WHY?) For those of you who can't be objective when...
• Commented on Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People's Temple, the 1977 exposé.
  It has also unfortunately been established that the growing of crops 1) is commerce, not religion, and 2) growing crops for personal consumption affects interstate commerce and falls under federal jurisdiction. I'm not in favor of the latter at all,...
• Commented on Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People's Temple, the 1977 exposé.
  Takuan: That's unfortunate. Its also unfortunate if tax-exemption would be removed from churches. Its also unfortunate that rights of conscience against war only apply to those that are against all warfare....
• Commented on Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People's Temple, the 1977 exposé.
  Antinous: I'm not an anarchist, but I think its a positive good if we view some parts of social organization as sacrosanct. The intangibles provided by religion should be one but there could be others. Think of the concept of...