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• Commented on High School Teacher Recounts "Sexting" Ordeal That Ruined His Career
  What's a shame is that there has been so little coverage of this in the local newspapers in Loudoun County. Plowman no longer deserves his job....
• Commented on Long-secret Red Cross Report Says Medical Workers Helped US Torture Terror Suspects
  Lyddiechu, you must read the other NY Times site. The one I read at www.nytimes.com is where I read this before here....
• Commented on Bike with band name sticker shuts down airport
  I had to stop reading the comments about half way down. Its amazing that so many people can't step back and look at what they are posting before they post it. The IRA? Do they exist as a terrorist organization...
• Commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  Looks like this has become the bad science page. Thermisol has been out of vaccines for years. Yet autism rates continued to climb. No serious medical journal has published anything about vaccines causing anything except potential reactions such as egg...
• Commented on TED2009: Make Love not Porn
  Uh MDH, I can last for more than a few minutes. Perhaps you don't get enough practice? dderidex,right on. I hate getting pubes in my mouth, even before it became popular in porn. There is one exception, but that requires...
• Commented on Climatic Heresy: 2
  "but publication of skeptical material is now hazardous to one's scientific reputation and funding. I believe there is a significant chilling effect on speech." Like patriotism, the last refuge of the scoundrel. They are out to get us those conspiring...
• Commented on Does the Medieval Warm Period mean that climate change isn't real, dangerous and caused by humans? (No)
  What have you actually proven FARRAGO? That you don't understand how worldwide temperatures are measured in the past such as tree rings? (Which is how they know when Jamestown was founded, this part of the country was in a severe...
• Commented on Man will get 30 lashes for smoking on Saudi Arabian flight
  How many lashes do Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld earn?...
• Commented on Beastie Boys' legendary "Paul's Boutique" re-released, remastered on 20th anniversary
  Vinyl, nice. 180 gram of quality so the album can be listened to the way it was meant to be -- Analog recording, mix and master. For those that have decent systems with turntable, you will know that the vinyl...
• Commented on DIY 33 1/3 Books
  Don't believe everything Lennon says. He changes stories and makes them up. Many Beatles songs just where word plays based on something they read. Doesn't mean the song is really about that....
• Commented on BB Video: Inside Electro-Harmonix, guitar pedal engineers and vintage vacuum tubes
  Wait a minute. I thought that this was just snooty audiophile nonsense, you know tubes versus digital mp3s? #4 rockstrongo -- what have you heard? Did he really win against the Russian mob?...
• Commented on Tank collector Jacques Littlefield, RIP
  He has been on several History Channel shows on restoring of tanks. I am curious what will happen to his collection....
• Commented on Senator's bill to ban profanity
  When we went on vacation to South Carolina last year, my wife had been unfamiliar with the state. Her comment was that it was like a third world country there....
• Commented on Audiophile product parodies
  If you think that CDs sound better than good vinyl, then go back to your mp3s because they don't and never will. I don't have expensive interconnects, or other such nonsense but I have a decent system and if you...
• Commented on Audiophile product parodies
  oh yee that have ears yet can not hear...
• Commented on Steve Jobs takes 6 months off from Apple
  The man could not bring himself to admit that he is mortal and going to die young of terminal cancer. "Protein imbalance." Yea, he knew this was a lie, but when you have been told you are a god for...
• Commented on Al Jazeera Releases Gaza Video Archive Under Creative Commons License
  If that link has anything to do with this discussion GREGLONDON, then you must think we have the time to figure it out. You should be banned for posting it in my opinion. Yea, so what Two Gun, they are...
• Commented on Arab shoe-tossing isn't a gesture of friendly affection
  Can't believe no one has been lame enough to say it, so I will. If the shoe fits...... Bush needs to get in plenty of travel now. Once he is done he risks arrest and trial in the Hague....
• Commented on A Message To Boing Boing Readers From the Auto Industry
  When Clinton tried to do something about health care, where were the Big 3? Silent. Let them eat their high health care costs now....
• Commented on Britain's "Great Firewall" set to restrict access to Wikipedia
  I am curious. Are you getting blocked from purchasing this David Hamilton book? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Age-Innocence-David-Hamilton/dp/1854103040/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228688033&sr=1-2...
• Commented on Cognitive Therapy is as effective as anti-depressants in chronic depression
  I am only interested in hearing the opinions of those that have depression on this. Others that talk about drug dependencies and pharmaceutical companies clearly are not suffering from depression and therefore are talking out of their asses. I hear...
• Commented on NYT on Guantánamo "Nothing has been more damaging to the United States than the violation of the legal principles at the heart of the American idea."
  It will be a stain on this country for awhile. I wonder how many Americans actually care or understand though....
• Commented on Women may lose house for sex while she was a high school student 12 years ago
  I think you are all being very unfair to Georgia. Georgia has come a long way. 50 years ago they would have lynched the boy if he was black and the girl was white. Progress/...
• Commented on Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security chief? "We could do worse"
  So people are suggesting that we put someone that is not a politician in a political position? They have to go to the Hill and discuss budgets, spending, etc? Oh yea, let's put a security expert from MIT in that...
• Commented on Dery on decapitation
  The NAZIs also used an executioner with a axe and appropriate blade too. Somehow that sounds better than the guillotine....
• Commented on Growing list of successful pot smokers
  Louis Armstrong, every day of his adult life. Richard Feynmann. Bob Marley and Peter Tosh....
• Commented on Change.gov
  Marc Kelsey I would think they would filter out all non US IP addresses, but then what about Americans overseas? If you have some way of assuring only Americans input into the system that doesn't require a passport, digital certs,...
• Commented on So Little Time, So Much Damage
  Its not just this. Its the issuing of bogus rules in environmental protection, worker safety, civil rights, you name. The 8 years of corruption will even last longer until every political appointee is gone....
• Commented on Letters From Johns
  Nevada provides proof that prostitution can be done the right way....
• Commented on A photograph of America's new president.
  Thanks for saving me the time of responding GNOODLES. Foofer believes in little green men running around so forgive him. I am curious as to what the reddest state in the Union is though. Oklahoma?...