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• Commented on Man bites off man's pinky during health care rally
  Welcome to crazytown. We're debating healthcare....
• Commented on Possible B.O. ban in Honolulu
  This is just a sneaky way of discouraging European tourists from coming to Oahu....
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  It's a shame that genetic engineering doesn't weed out the male sperm cells before they get a chance to do their thing on the egg....
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  I'm no PETA freak, but this reinforces my personal preference to not eat meat. Yucky....
• Commented on IT restrictions hurt productivity
  #32: I simply googled "NMCI" and I got an invalid certificate warning. What is the military putting on a Google search that requires SSL, has an invalid certificate, even though I haven't clicked on any results!?!?!...
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  #2: You would be OK with days or months of jailtime for a Cellphone? Every person with a cell phone has forgotten to turn it off at one time or another. A stern warning should be enough for a cell...
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  Jail time!? He wasn't on trial and didn't have to be there. He should have just been kicked out of the court room. A defendant causing a disturbance? Sure, a night in jail. An audience member causing a disturbance can...
• Commented on Scott Westerfeld's ass-kicking, bestselling YA novel UGLIES as a free, DRM-free download
  Sorry for not being as hip as the rest of you, but what the heck is "YA"?...
• Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
  #5 - Cascading Style Sheets was great when it first made the web design scene because we could make fancy designs really simply and change the whole look of a web site without touching the content. Unfortunately, it's rules -...
• Commented on ACLU sues TSA for illegally detaining and searching man carrying $4,700 in cash
  Some commenters on the previous related story said he was suspicious for not answering questions. What if they asked him his sexual preference? What if they asked him his Social Security number, bank account number, mothers maiden name? He's not...
• Commented on Warning sign on house
  #28: I'm sure they're not trying to bug you. If you're not interested in what they're saying, just tell them....
• Commented on Tees say Made in USA in Chinese
  As a former Yooper, I'm very offended that they left the Upper Peninsula of Michigan off the map. It's part of the continental United States! Agh!...
• Commented on Busy Hanoi intersection has no traffic lights
  Here in Wisconsin our DOT is going Roundabout-Crazy! We've gotten like 15 of them in the last 5 years, including a multilane roundabout installed and more in the works. Even though some people are so stupid about how they use...
• Commented on Cuttlefish embryos can spot prey
  Wait - Isn't this kind of a wild assumption that they learn by looking through the eggs? Until there's an experiment with a control group of eggs that had the view from the eggs blocked (dyed? encased?) it doesn't have...
• Commented on Little Brother signing tonight in Mequon, WI
  Finally we Wisconsinites get something geeky-cool besides the Oshkosh EAA stuff...
• Commented on Photo of honor system at bookstore in Ojai, CA
  Menominee, MI has an honor-system golf driving range. They collect golf balls with their cart every day and fill buckets. They leave the buckets in a shed with a video camera on it and a price on a sign -...
• Commented on Massive Passport Canada data leak
  I'm guessing that the case precedent you're thinking of was in the states. Canada is a little more intuitive with Internet laws....