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• Commented on Man to marry his video game girlfriend this Sunday
  And the best thing about this girl, like all Japanese manga/anime women, is that she has absolutely no nostrils. In fact, this girl's nose is remarkably prominent. Her peers often, if they have a nose at all, simply have a...
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  The Senator from Maine seems, to my eye, to have traced it. At the very least it looks like she was staring intently at a map when she did it. Georgia is a disgrace....
• Commented on Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever
  As a jazz "artist", I find myself making less money, honestly. I live in Tokyo, and it's the same bullshit here as in the US -- people think they're doing me a favor by giving me a venue. They're giving...
• Commented on How the ambient sound at Walt Disney World works
  That's how it is in my house, except with odor....
• Commented on Stealthy anti-whaling powerboat
  Looks suspiciously like Ace and Gary's car....
• Commented on Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing
  Oh, so that's why Canada and the UK are going to adopt our health care model. Let's be fair: the main reason most people are against some form of socialized medicine in the US is, deep down inside, they don't...
• Commented on Kfetch
  The only offensive thing I saw was calling the Chinese dog costume a "geisha", thus showing that Huffington Post, like so many others, considers Asians to all be indistinguishable and interchangeable. And that's not the costume manufacturer's error, but the...
• Commented on Taste test: Togarashi
  At the high school cafeteria where I teach in Japan there's a big ol' container of togarashi on the counter. I put it on everything!...
• Commented on Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing
  Sam: how come Canadians and Germans and Swiss and French and Japanese aren't all suffering horribly under the yoke of higher taxation, living their lives in oppressive slums? How come their businesses aren't collapsing under the weight of massive taxes?...
• Commented on Woman with dystonia can only walk backwards
  Musician's dystonia is the only one I'm familiar with. Assuming it's a variation on the same phenomenon, I've never heard of it caused by anything except strenuous, long term practicing coupled with an unlucky brain wiring. It's not massively uncommon...
• Commented on Finland makes broadband a right
  The online snow shoe industry is saved!...
• Commented on Pop Quiz: True Love, or About To End in Tears (or Worse)?
  Personally I would immediately break off an engagement to someone merely for being named Georgene....
• Commented on Phillip Roebuck: One Man Band Banjo Ninja
  I agree with caldrix and EH on this one. Spastic editing utterly ruins what would otherwise be a pretty enjoyable clip....
• Commented on Beauty and Brazil
  I'd say the same is true for Tokyo. Totally duded up with heels or knee-high boots and oversized Chanel sunglasses is the norm for taking your baby out for a stroll here it seems....
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  We'll be okay as long as we lay off the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulators....
• Commented on Executive compensation vs. the world
  Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot I didn't have the right to register my disapproval. Pardon me....
• Commented on Executive compensation vs. the world
  Sure, Cicada, we're not equally valuable. Nobody argues that. But are some people almost nine thousand times more valuable than others? And that's just minimum wage earners in the US we're talking about. How about the majority of the world's...
• Commented on The American Spirit
  Hmm. Sad that people have to pretend to believe in Iron Age superstitions in order to have a social life....
• Commented on The American Spirit
  @TOMWOOD: You don't have to "eat" at any of the "restaurants", you know. You're not going to starve to death. Forgoing "food" altogether might make you healthier in the end....
• Commented on The American Spirit
  I notice the online poll results are far far different. A majority practice no religion at all. Must be the Boing Boing effect. Or maybe people smart enough to use the internets have at least half a brain between their...
• Commented on The American Spirit
  I'd like to see exactly how the questions were phrased. "Validity" is a pretty broad, inexact word. Almost all faiths are mutually incompatible if you are approaching it in anything other than a dabbling, pick-and-choose, non-committal way. I'd be willing...
• Commented on Nasal spray for memory enhancement
  What about cigarettes?...
• Commented on One small step for a clown, one giant leap for clownkind.
  I just hope he lets the air out of his shoes before liftoff....
• Commented on G20 police uses arrested student as trophy in group photo
  C'mon ,now! This is no worse than fraternity hazing! These guys have got to blow off steam sometimes, ya know?...
• Commented on Wisconsin Tourism Federation loses to WTF, changes name
  Damn! I thought I was going to be all clever and suggest FTW. Shows how clever I am......
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  Pixel's got it about right. Think about this: a non-Muslim woman in Saudi Arabia is required by strict law to cover her hair and have a male escort, regardless of her wishes, her religious beliefs, or her nationality. How is...
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  "Some Muslim women wear the headscarf and some women don't. Some Muslim women choose to wear their headscarf in a way that conforms somewhat to today's fashion and some prefer to go old school. It all comes down to personal...
• Commented on D&D camp, circa 1982
  Homer Simpson voice: "Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd!!" Just kidding!...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  From the OP: "You may or may not choose to wear one, but the world doesn't revolve around you." I think this is the point. I may or may not choose to wear one. I have this choice. To champion...
• Commented on Star Wars considered as an environmental feel-good movie
  Those enviro-nazis! They're always screwing up everything! There oughta be a law!...