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• Commented on Photographs of residents in their tiny flats in Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate
  Not prison cells. Dorm rooms. I half expect to see a poster of Janis or Jimi every time I click one. I like #14's sewing machine and wooden bunk beds, and #78's color and texture. Notice how many of them...
• Commented on Cataloging the lies in Palin's "Going Rouge"
  Meanwhile, Lloyd Blankfein admits Goldman Sachs took part in activities that were "clearly wrong", and offers $500 million in loans - a tiny percentage of Goldman's bonus pool - to small businesses by way of atonement. How many fact checkers...
• Commented on Unemployment stats in the USA just got worse
  Bush promoted a lot of economically harmful programs. Keeping interest rates way too low for way too long following the 2000-2001 internet bubble bursting, leading businesses and individuals to make bad investments with "cheap" money. The "ownership society" programs to...
• Commented on "Don't Poke Scalia"
  But you'd better pretend, and smile while you take any BS they choose to dish out, because you're getting paid to win. Not point out personality defects. Presumes having no backbone is the best way to win friends and influence...
• Commented on Army Corps responsible for Katrina flood damage, judge rules
  Hey, what's a few more billion when you're already broke? This doesn't even mean anything anymore. Will anyone collect? Will the dollars be worth anything by the time they do? Will anyone give a damn about New Orleans when the...
• Commented on On the power of "bhaiya" (Hindi for "big brother")
  "Dude"....
• Commented on "Don't Poke Scalia"
  Oh get off your high horse. We're talking about a body that has Scalia on it. These are men and women, not gods. And in this case, it's the justice instigating the unprofessional behavior. If the rest of them can't...
• Commented on "Don't Poke Scalia"
  In that courtroom, Scalia is a judge, not the judge. It might well be worth pissing him off if it makes the other eight laugh. If he's being that obnoxious, there's a high probability he wasn't going to find for...
• Commented on "Don't Poke Scalia"
  I don't like this advice. It may be correct in the individual case, but consider the effect if applies universally. Scalia never faces a snarky reply. He only receives extreme deference, no matter how outrageous he becomes. Imagine how much...
• Commented on California to enact energy-saving mandates for HDTVs in 2011
  Regulated businesses displeased, predict dire consequences. Seen California's economy lately? Or the rate of domestic outmigration? The businesses predicting dire consequences were right. Keep scoffing....
• Commented on Conservative children's book vilifies Nancy Pelosi
  The right has no sense of aesthetics? Are you kidding? Those bold red, white, and black graphics? Uniforms that are still referenced in film, fetish, and NJ state trooper dress codes? The right has produced some of the most enduring...
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  And here I thought the warning on my airline peanuts letting me know the were packaged in a facility processing peanuts was a sign of the end. A guy complaining about consumer-proofing even as he demonstrates why it's necessary tops...
• Commented on Samasource: How African refugees are scoring Silicon Valley Internet jobs
  Ah, the knowledge industry discovers what clothing manufacturers have long known: Desperate people make great cheap labor. They get opportunities beyond prostitution and subsistence farming, shareholders see enhanced revenues, and the uppity American middle class gets a reminder that their...
• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  Sheesh, lighten up folks. I live in San Francisco, which is about as saturated by latino culture as is possible for an American city to be, and all I see are benefits. Ever look in a restaurant kitchen? Or in...
• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  #42, You mean to say that employers and wealthy business interests create incentives for illegal immigration? This is quite the revelation. Please tell us more, anonymous poster! I'm sure I've never seen it mentioned by an anti-immigration sources. If this...
• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  Nobody noticed we have 10.2% unemployment? And that's the low number that deliberately doesn't count workers who've given up. The first time we passed this level of workplace (non) participation was in 1978, when women were really starting to enter...
• Commented on Digging in to the donor details at Kiva.org
  1. Money is fungible. 2. Kiva is fun. Just for sheer entertainment, there are a lot of worse ways to burn $25. Whatever issues Kiva might have, your money's probably a lot safer and more productive there than it is...
• Commented on Tech support!
  Of course. They're paying so they don't have to read manuals. Why pay for something you're not going to use? Sounds like something a woman would do....
• Commented on Doc Marten's with glow-in-the-dark skeletal feet
  The really interesting Docs these days are the "For Life" models. Built a little heavier (in Thailand) and come with some leather conditioner and extra shoelaces. When you wear them out, they'll repair or replace for $35. Only 1460s and...
• Commented on The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
  I believe S&W is the largest single user of scandium. It goes into the aluminum alloy frames of their AirLite line of pistols. Great to carry, painful to shoot. With so little mass to absorb recoil, the recoil is rather...
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  Tire irons won't fit in a cute little Altoids tin. That's ok. There's plenty of room for them in a car. And if you're going to go where the creator of this kit wants to go, they make up for...
• Commented on How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe
  Watching that makes me almost as happy as drinking a bottle of wine....
• Commented on Video about world's greatest soda pop store
  Never mind the soda, I love that economical HD cameras and YouTube make this kind of journalism possible. I'm sure there are lots of similar stories out there, just waiting to be found. And now I'll have a chance to...
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  I guess the idea of not taking any of the options never occurred to you? "What, but that's outrageous! Not have a 401k?! That's crazy talk!" Is it? How's that 401k working out for you? You like those 0% returns...
• Commented on Trailer for Collapse, a documentary about coming global meltdown
  Many people who saw this coming are indeed sitting pretty. I have a friend who's sitting on a mountain in Italy right now as a result. My own gold and silver investments haven't done too badly. (If you bought silver...
• Commented on William S. Pumpkin-Burroughs
  And after Halloween you can always take it to the range and use it for a little target practice with your .38 special....
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  Due diligence. It applies to both the big and the little guys. If you just happened to invest in a mutual fund without bothering to ask whether or not the people who managed it are conscientious and trustworthy, well... whose...
• Commented on Digital Open Winners: Australian Teen Crafts "Sneaky" Games
  You had me at "bacon". But the rest of it's downright fantastic too....
• Commented on US military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
  I'd rather dodge high-pressure recruiters than the draft....
• Commented on Keeping Point-and-Click Adventures Alive
  I just want to be able to play Grim Fandango on my phone....