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• Commented on Naked man tasered at Coachella for refusing to wear wizard's robe
  i think the cops were did their job properly. they asked the naked man (who was way off his tree) repeatedly and politely to put his clothes on and only after that tried to wrestle him into the wizard costume....
• Favorited Dolphins blowing rings on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dolphins blowing rings on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dolphins blowing rings on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dolphins blowing rings on Boing Boing
• Commented on London cops beating the shit out of peaceful G20 demonstrators
  chico leo said it best, this is crying wolf. the hyperbolic title doesn't fit the content of the video at all. how sad that boing boing also resorts to fact free reporting and distortion of truth....
• Commented on London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity
  like unclemike i was also reminded of the motivational posters in the great film brazil; another good one: "suspicion breeds confidence"....
• Commented on Physical Cosmologies: The Shining
  much more intelligible is the great book 'kubrick: inside a film artist's maze' by thomas allen nelson. a must read for all kubrick fans....
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  reading through the comments i have to wonder how many people against this law have actually spent time in the uk and/or know what the situation with youth culture is there. in my opinion there is a serious problem with...
• Commented on Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
  in switzerland its normal to see children from the age of 5 walking to school by themselves every day! they don't seem any worse off for it .. in fact they learn self-reliance, a rather important survival skill....
• Commented on Basket Case Insurer Gets $170 Billion from Taxpayers, Still Pays Huge Bonuses
  bailout money is often referred to as 'taxpayers money', but i really doubt there is such a surplus of taxpayers money just sitting around (especially after iraq). or is the government just going to print a couple of trillion? does...
• Commented on Tibetan New Year Protests Around the World Today: Boycotting Losar.
  takuan says china is near economic collapse. china has been through far, far worse than this and has recovered. take a look through china's long history and this current crisis will look mild by comparison. also, there are plenty of...
• Commented on Public elementary schools that integrate dance, music, and art
  @redrichie, i didn't say teach science by rote learning. science is enthralling, and its true that the science curriculum has to do a better job of communicating that. i have no quarrel with science fiction, and i like the genre...
• Commented on Public elementary schools that integrate dance, music, and art
  i also think this is a step in the wrong direction. i love the arts, but they should stay in arts classes. mixing the arts into a science lesson can only detract from the teaching of science; the consequence of...
• Commented on Unemployed Chinese workers go back to the villages
  considering mainland chinese have previously had to put up with maoism and the cultural revolution; the japanese with their scorched earth policy; the british and forced opium consumption; the guomindang, invading manchus, etc. i dare say they'll weather this annoyance...
• Commented on On Darwin's birthday, 4 in 10 believe in evolution
  troofseeker, how can you believe evolution and the bible since they clearly cannot be reconciled? for example, evolution clearly shows that adam and eve never existed, but as i'm sure you realize there a numerous such examples. also, why does...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  haruki murakami, stanley kubrick, andy warhol, robert smith, richard dawkins ... hergé...
• Commented on Kid on Drugs
  this kid is adorable...
• Commented on Disneyland Paris's smoking area/stroller rental
  my dear robulus: i've already stated that i'm a non-smoker. having lived in europe for several years, i suffered from second hand smoke in enclosed areas and i'm therefore in favour of smoking bans in bars, restaurants and clubs (all...
• Commented on Disneyland Paris's smoking area/stroller rental
  @robulus, per your recommendation i did look up smoking and SIDS - the link is with maternal smokers, not second hand smoke. also, what strikes you as the 'obvious truth' isn't necessarily the same to the rest of humankind, and...
• Commented on Disneyland Paris's smoking area/stroller rental
  @robulus, thank you for letting me know the purpose of smoking areas. but what is disingenuous about saying children can inhale a little second hand smoke? its second hand smoke - not cyanide gas. its bad for you, but so...
• Commented on Disneyland Paris's smoking area/stroller rental
  @antinous - you set up a dramatic and false logical fallacy of the choice between smoking and 'preservation of civilization'. reality is more nuanced than this reduction you have thought up in your world of true and false. oh, and...
• Commented on Disneyland Paris's smoking area/stroller rental
  i'm not a smoker but its a shame that children need to be treated like over-protected fetish objects. so what if they inhale a little second hand smoke (in an open air environment)? when i was a child, one could...
• Commented on Attenborough's response to creationists' hate mail
  @robulus - god may be a metaphor for the living universe, as you put it, but how do you know which religion is true (if you care)? unless your wife mandates it, there is no good reason to choose the...
• Commented on China's astroturf army
  fortunately we live in the united states, where our culture is free of jingoism and thought manipulation. as noam chomsky says, one of the hardest things to do is look in the mirror....
• Commented on Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
  @davegroff. agnosticism covers a wide range of doubt. many people think it means that gods existence is equally likely as its non-existence. atheism treats belief in gods like belief in fairies. we can't prove fairies don't exist, but few people...
• Commented on Richard Dawkins and Derren Brown talk about "psychics"
  i agree that dawkins is losing the plot a bit when he goes after harry potter and other childrens fantasy stories. however, i greatly admire him as an author and as a defender of reason (which i am sorry to...
• Commented on Jonestown, 30 years later: Life and Death of People's Temple (PBS video).
  what do people think of the theory that the CIA was behind the 'suicide'?...
• Commented on If It Walks Like A Duck and Talks Like a Duck Dept: The McCain-Palin Mob
  we are doomed. i was reminded of a quote of george carlin: "have you ever watched the jerry springer show? those are average americans"....
• Commented on EXTREME: Sarah Palin video "ad"
  isn't god always on 'our' side in a war?...