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• Commented on If It Walks Like A Duck and Talks Like a Duck Dept: The McCain-Palin Mob
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• Commented on Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin email hack
  No to the first question or the second?...
• Commented on Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin email hack
  Is is that because she's a conservative, and not a privacy advocate, that no one here cares about Sarah Palin's privacy rights? Can we at least agree that Governor Palin is the victim of a crime?...
• Commented on Testimony of Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia
  Oh, and as far as potential innocence goes, the problem is that once a sentence is commuted, it can't be reinstituted. If we took this guy off of death row, he could turn right around and say, "Ha ha, suckers!...
• Commented on Testimony of Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia
  We should never give up justice in pursuit of a convenient substitute. Someone who commits murder deserves to be killed. Killing a murderer is not itself murder because, IMO, a murderer is not a human being. It has forfeited its...
• Commented on Reengineering Earth to stop climate change
  I think that if we have the power to damage the ecosystem, we have the power to repair it. And I also believe the inverse is true. In short, I don't believe that we can damage the earth beyond repair....
• Commented on Heinlein's fan-mail solution
  "Any thoughts on which questions he was asked frequently enough to cite Renshaw and Twain?" Renshaw was referenced in several Heinlein works, including Stranger in a Strange Land and Citizen of the Galaxy, as a teacher of total recall. The...
• Commented on Douglas Rushkoff on the RNC
  Reading through the piece I find a glaring omission in its theme, one which if considered, strips the speeches of much of what the author perceives as hate. This is the possibility of exceptionalism, that a man or a nation...
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  Minto: what do you do? Bartfinn: The United States of America is not a democracy. The USA is a Republic, under the rule of law. That law is meant to ensure equal access to government and government services to all,...
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  minto: Anything I want to speak, press, or assemble to discuss, I have no fear of the government interfering with me (since I don't want to speak about committing terrorism). I have no fear that if I want to read...
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  #93 No, I'm far more concerned with the Democrats' curtailments of my rights. The difference is that I can work around the Republicans' curtailments myself. If Sarah Palin or my own Governor Patterson pulls a book from my library, I...
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  You seem very certain that the standards used by this "public review" will match the ones in your head. No, I'm just willing to defer to the choices of the people. Heck, I deal with the fact that the standards...
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  But then that's not democracy. Democracy is rule by the will of the people, no matter if the people are ignorant, prejudiced, or cowardly. If we don't like that, if we want principles like freedom and knowledge even though they...
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  @63 You have the right to. Why do you have the right to do so on my tax dollar? #65 Again, considering that the whole story may be questionable, but it says that Palin heard from some of her supporters....
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  Minty #58 I didn't say that a book should be pulled from all shelves. I *asked* why a *publicly funded* and *government run* library should not have its corpus subject to public review....
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  Does Boingboing's vaunted commitment to reason and skepticism fly out the window when it comes to digging dirt on a prominent conservative? I for one would like to know where John Stein's proof is that Sarah Palin did this. The...
• Commented on Zappers: tools that let restaurateurs adjust the totals on their tills to cheat on taxes
  Good for them. This is the kind of resistance to an oppressive government that I can get behind. Now I can only hope that it costs more than $20 million to make them pay....
• Commented on Millimeter wave scan machine at Denver Airport
  I'm perfectly OK with anyone in an airport scanning me. I presume they take one look at me and want to see me naked....
• Commented on Yankees will drag you out of the stadium if you try to go to the bathroom during "God Bless America"
  When you go into someone's house/stadium, you're supposed to follow their rules, aren't you? The police didn't arrest him, they didn't taser him, they simply followed the team's rules and denied him further use of the team's property. There are...
• Commented on Klingon knife scares the crap out of dumb British scandal-sheet
  The clone of Kahless the Unforgettable is wanted for questioning....
• Commented on Carbs kill cells that regulate appetite
  "So Italians (pasta) and East-Asians (rice) are screwed? I guess we just have to substitute with coffee and cigarettes and being broke!" Actually this is, I believe, why those wonderful multi-course Italian meals have pasta served before the main course...
• Commented on Mickey Mouse arrested at Disneyland
  #2: I have trouble believing that any of the arresting officers were able to muster a happy thought....
• Commented on Toaster for your PC
  Wouldn't it make more sense to make the toaster itself a heat sink, using the CPU heat to toast the bread, rather than generating its own heat? And if not a toaster, there ought to be something better to do...
• Commented on NYT on trolls
  So, saying that no human can escape being human is perversely puritanical? What on earth does that mean? Just this: if the physical structure of an environment alters enough to that the rules that were needed in the old environment...
• Commented on NYT on trolls
  I said you and your. How often do you throw parties like that? Rarely, but not never. You want to advance civilization, but you want to be rid of all the civilization we've accumulated to date? You have not thought...
• Commented on NYT on trolls
  phlameer, how could she possibly speak for the entire interwebs? who the fuck could speak for the entire www? the fact that you would think that just boggles my brainpan. not the first time that's happened in our discourse but,...
• Commented on NYT on trolls
  Not once in post 88 did Teresa mention BoingBoing. Please explain why I should have realized her analogies were limited to this site. If we're only going to evaluate statements based on position, then why dissent from mine, since I...
• Commented on NYT on trolls
  Antinous/MinT I didn't think Teresa's post was limited to BB. I thought her metaphors were about the entire internet. BB has the right to set whatever rules it wants for its own sites. No one should have the right to...
• Commented on NYT on trolls
  Is there anyone here who feels obliged to let absolutely anyone join their conversations, attend their parties, or walk in on their meetings? I hope we're all open-minded and generous enough to give the benefit of the doubt to strangers...
• Commented on NYT on trolls
  How can I not comment on this one? I was happier when the word was used to mean an intentional disrupter of a community, and not just one with opinions radically divorced from those of the community. The problem is...