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• Commented on Abstinence-only rappers sing about the "Christian Side Hug"
  This extremely special brand of crazycakes will also deny you the appellation "Christian" over your refusal to be as nuts as they are. Not only that, this extremely special brand of crazycakes is also extremely loud, thus, ordinary sane mainstream...
• Commented on Sneaky pinball makers' tricks
  @jfrancis - There is no need for magnetic interference. The geometry of the table can be designed to give the ball a higher probability of going down the middle just out of reach of the flippers. I would guess mastering...
• Commented on Interrogation tapes of 3 Army sergeants accused with murdering 3 Iraqi detainees
  Frats that get caught engaging in that level of hazing tend to get sanctioned by the university, kicked off campus, and referred to law enforcement authorities as appropriate. Comparison FAIL....
• Commented on Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?
  The lines don't even line up. That wouldn't even fly on FARK....
• Commented on Conservative children's book vilifies Nancy Pelosi
  What would you say about a children's book with a pro-drug message about cool parents who smoke pot? How about one that reinforces racial stereotypes? Where would you draw the line?...
• Commented on Conservative children's book vilifies Nancy Pelosi
  I would say, "as if Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House all eight years of the Bush Administration. As if she were the author of the Bush tax cut bill in the House. As if she even voted for...
• Commented on 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style
  Interestingly, most of the tract-distributing evangelist types nowadays mostly ignore the New Testament, preferring the more ancient fire-and-brimstone God to the one who loved you so much he sent his only Son to save your miserable undeserving soul....
• Commented on Arnold Schwarzenegger's coded F-bomb in veto
  Not taking case into account, the probability that the first letters of seven consecutive lines of text would spell a given expletive are 26^7:1. That's 8,031,810,176:1, when you do the math. Winning the New York Lottery, by contrast, is only...
• Commented on Council bans parents from play areas
  City councilpeople who vote for this sort of nonsense should be forced to read, in its entirety, the comments thread on FARK when the news item reporting their stupidity inevitably appears there. Aloud. On the news....
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  I kind of wondered about that myself. Xinos is Greek, right? If I interpret it correctly, it means "foreigner."...
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  Because he wastes more gas that way. He'd probably have gotten a Hummer, but those are far too spartan for someone of his alleged social standing....
• Commented on Al Franken reads the Fourth Amendment to DoJ official at PATRIOT Act hearings
  It's high time somebody decided the Constitution was worth defending. The Supreme Court, at least its conservative wing, has decided that the convenience of the executive branch was sufficient grounds to declare just about anything constitutional. Of course, this was...
• Commented on Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas
  #12 - There are several dialects of American English. Consider that "cart", "buggy", "basket", and "bascart" are all words used to describe a shopping cart in various parts of the USA. While the article was written by the British tabloid...
• Commented on Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas
  #2 - Out of sight, and out of mind, like the sewer mutants in Futurama. If they had set up a tent city within eyeshot of the Strip, you can bet the cops would have broken it up long ago,...
• Commented on 1917 Beekman Street Subway collapse
  #10 - The streets are indeed hollow where the subway runs. The preferred method of establishing subway lines is to dig a trench where the street is, lay the subway track, then build a framework of steel beams to support...
• Commented on Al Franken draws map of the US
  I've seen him do this trick a couple of times. Once on Saturday Night Live, and again on the intro sequence for the TV version of his talk show on the Sundance Channel. It's a cool trick....
• Commented on Disney buying Marvel
  How soon until the Church of Scientology buys Disney?...
• Commented on Coin-tosses aren't fair
  The bias arises from the designs stamped on the coin. Even if you're using a pre-1964 silver quarter, you have the ratio of blank space to design to deal with, which becomes more of a factor the higher the relief...
• Commented on Entertainment Weekly ad with a video-screen glued to the pages
  FTFA: "The video-enhancement will appear in the September issue of Entertainment Weekly, but only in what sounds like a relatively small subset of the circulation: The promo itself will be in every copy, but the video portion only in some...
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  Oh, snap! Lady, you got TOLD!...
• Commented on Somali Pirates vs. Egyptian Fisherman: guess who wins?
  I thought the pirates were ranking victims by value. Fishing boats from Egypt are now high-value targets? Stupid pirates....
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  #10, #19 (and I would assume others downthread) - There are all sorts of consumer goods that fit the general description "generic" nowadays. Clock radios, for example. What is the difference between one that costs six bucks (yes, I have...
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  #14 - Rich people buy stuff that's timeless, that doesn't go out of style. They know they're loaded, their friends know they're loaded, so they have nothing to prove to anyone. It's ghetto trash that cares so much about "bling"...
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  #18 - Fashionable and well-fit for how long? The problem with cheap clothes is that they don't stay that way. I have had polo shirts, hoodies, and even pants shrink a whole size or more the first time through the...
• Commented on America makes nothing except weapons -- UPDATED
  #3 - what happens when China stops sending us stuff? What if they suddenly got pissed at us, and decided we needed to be taught a lesson? What then? Would we be able to start a manufacturing plant making, say,...
• Commented on Movie/record industry rep says that you shouldn't expect to be able to play your media for as long as you own it
  In addition to the above comments, I might add that vinyl records were created with durability in mind. That they were less likely to break (shatter) was a major selling point, other than the fact that they sounded better and...
• Commented on Birther congresspeople run from Huffington Post video reporter
  #10 - Well, the CEO of Diebold (spell it right, for God's sake!) did indeed say that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year (2004)." What he meant by that is a...
• Commented on Land mine "donated" to Good Will
  I'm sure it was a training mine. The chances that someone got unauthorized use of an actual Claymore mine is minute....
• Commented on Socialstructing: Bringing Social Back into Our Economy and Organizations
  The true meaning of the parable of the loaves and fishes - the synergy of cooperation with one's fellow human beings. That guy Jesus was a smart fellow....
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  #18 - Seriously. I suppose raising tomato seedlings in the basement and feeding them nothing but artificially generated photons from March to May is also cruel. I buy mine at a "seedling mill," then I plant them in the barely...