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• Commented on Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
  I should be clear that I'm talking about Hancock....
• Commented on Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
  Considering all the offensive nonsense this guy has written about the Maya, how can I take anything he writes seriously? While I'm sure there is an interesting history to the subject matter of American occultism, past performance of this author...
• Commented on Review: Shure's SE530 headphones and faith restored
  Well $500 is list. Go Amazon - they are I've had these for a while now and completely love them. I love them for flying and my morning train ride, but they are also amazing for monitoring what audio I'm...
• Commented on Free parking costs a fortune
  meanwhile public transit is crumbling due to lack of funding and people grumble about the costs without comparing to the costs of driving....
• Commented on Slap on the wrist for cop who assaulted paramedic
  I take offense at statements that anger management is useless. While the behavior of this trooper is inexcusable, there is no need to mock something that has helped lots of people act appropriately under difficult conditions. Frankly it's a tool...
• Commented on Sandia Labs' new SunCatcher power system resembles Magritte painting
  I was thinking more Anish Kapoor...
• Commented on Rare recording of James Joyce reading; Happy Bloomsday!
  It's not that rare is it? I mean I bought it as an LP when I was in High School. If you could buy it at midwestern record stores it can't be all that exotic, can it? Now my album...
• Commented on Whip It Good
  Just be warned that whips require practice, and practicing will get you a lot of attention - some of it hostile. My neighbors have gotten used it tho and are happy to know it's not gunfire. I stopped using whips...
• Commented on Health insurers invest billions in tobacco stocks
  Alright this is getting absurd. * Dead people don't pay premiums. * Cancer treatment is very expensive to insurers. Health Plans are pushing smoking cessation programs as a benefit in a huge way, because healthy members are their goal -...
• Commented on David Carradine, RIP
  I teach safer sex and safer BDSM. One of the things we teach is not to do these kinds of games alone - I've personally lost several friends this way. But, what an amazing life......
• Commented on Robert Frank Outtakes
  Cool - I'm listening to Exile on Main Street and this comes up. Love synchronicity......
• Commented on Scouts training to fight immigrants and terrorists
  Yeah, but a lot of gay kids still end up in the scouts - it's sort of like the military in more ways than one apparently. Me, I was doing mainframe programming as a kid in the Explorers (an IT...
• Commented on On Being Gizmodoed, Boing Boinged and Hydrogenated
  #20 MichaelFoody Use your ears, and let them decide. Really. Listen to a bunch of speakers with music you know and love. Don't be scared into buying something that you can't hear. Figure out your price point and listen to...
• Commented on Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
  Makes me think of The Decadent Gardener and their "fatal garden."...
• Commented on Chief Army Chaplain in Afghanistan distributes local-language Bibles, orders congregation to convert locals
  While I doubt it is a popular cause amongst typical Boing Boing readers, perhaps this might drum home the importance of repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell. While I'd imagine a good majority of gay US servicemen and women are Christian...
• Commented on Video teaser for new book: The Inside Story of the Process Church
  Don't forget the Mary Tyler Moore tie-in: http://www.aes-nihil.com/process.html...
• Commented on White tea contains anti-obesity substances
  I heard eating less and exercising more works too. Magic bullets rarely work. Very few good things in life come without effort.... For the record I drink tons of tea, including white tea. I still have to diet to see...
• Commented on Hand-cranked phone charger in a hollow log
  Also useful for torture techniques that are far nastier than waterboarding. Well, maybe not. The ones used for torture are AC and I think cell phones take DC, which just burns - very damaging....
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @14 Takuan I stopped riding my bike back in 1999 when I was hit by an SUV that ignored a red light. I was riding at a walking pace in a quiet park near my house. Luckily I was wearing...
• Commented on Bruce Sterling explains swine flu
  I think comments like @25 get to what Bruce's real point is. Right now in the gay community HIV transmission is going up because no one is scared. The epidemic isn't like it used to be - but people are...
• Commented on HOWTO Waterboard a Detainee: Analysis
  #40 raskolnikov773, "right name" I disagree. There is a big difference between a troll and a devil, no matter what the colour....
• Commented on Christian fundamentalists hijack Singaporean feminist group
  In the 80's doing AIDS activism, we found our biggest struggle was with keeping fringe revolutionary communist groups from trying to hijack our agenda. Given the chance they'd turn our specific demands for AIDS related action into 15 page screeds...
• Commented on HOWTO Waterboard a Detainee: Analysis
  #27 Takuan Yours was the best comment on this whole thing so far - I think you've summed up how I feel on this. ------- Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the...
• Commented on Throbbing Gristle and Derek Jarman
  Yay - I'm seeing them on Sunday. and Yay, more Metzger!...
• Commented on Surveillance image of thief stealing surveillance cams
  I made my first movie with a stolen hi-res security cam......
• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  I think we can shortcut the whole question of how dangerous/wrong/pleasant/whatever waterboarding is or isn't. As a large democracy with troops all over the world, we know that we do not want our military personnel to be subjected to torture....
• Commented on Yoga "Eco Mat" Review: PrAna Revolution (Attention-Conservation Verdict: I Dig.)
  #45 Takuan I'm guessing that Bikram is already patenting an octagonal shaped yoga mat for just such a competition. Let the trade dress lawsuits commence!...
• Commented on Yoga "Eco Mat" Review: PrAna Revolution (Attention-Conservation Verdict: I Dig.)
  @42 Yes, it's true. Even McYoga beats no Yoga!...
• Commented on Yoga "Eco Mat" Review: PrAna Revolution (Attention-Conservation Verdict: I Dig.)
  @39 stupidjerk Yes, this is a bit civil and geeky for a proper flame war - I fear this yoga stuff is working a tad too well. Haven't these people read the battle stories in the Mahābhārata? Now that's a...
• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  @2 "you'll confess to anything" I don't want to come off as defending the techniques used, but there is an important point that needs to be made: no one was being asked to confess anything. The detainees were assumed to...