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• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  So, nobody is going to comment on the irony of people getting the hell beat out of them at a "freedom not fear" rally? Its like everyone getting stuck in the broom closet at a convention against claustrophobia or something....
• Commented on Handmade, effect-heavy feature film
  I'm glad they used full-scale people....
• Commented on Untitled 2
  Middle Post!...
• Commented on Funny flame war video
  Godwin's law seems to have been suspended for this vid....
• Commented on Unicorn Chaser
  How come these are all just drawings and paintings of unihorns and not actual photographs of real unihorns?...
• Commented on Cute Video of Cute Song by Cute Kid About Internet + Gaming Etiquette Is Surprisingly Cute
  but who is actually the Internet Guardian Angel? I want to meet her/him....
• Commented on Twins commit perfect heist?
  But if one twin leaves earth on a rocket going 1/4 the speed of light . . ....
• Commented on Man in "I [Heart] My Marriage" t-shirt arrested for domestic battery
  Is it even possible someone would do something contradictory to the message they wear on their shirt? Say it ain't so....
• Commented on HRP-4C fashion model robot
  for the man who wants a woman that moves like C3PO...
• Commented on Get Your War On, the omnibus edition
  David Rees is the Lenny Bruce of our time....
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  Tag team death match: Otis Redding and Gram Parsons vs. Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  @52 I dare say you don't know the colour or gender of most of the commenters here. Whether your assumptions are right or not.. stilll assumptions. True. And as they say, when you assume you make an "As" out of...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  For folks like Mr. Branwyn, who can't think of any saint-worthy females even when they rack their brain, and want to rectify that shortcoming in their knowledge, here is a very short list of some possible leads for looking up...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  I love BoingBoing folks. And these are all great saints. But it is worth noting, just for reflection, that I could get to comment 25 still counting the number of females in the thread on one hand. This is comment...
• Commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  The science on inoculations is a settled matter. Watch out, Charles Platt will post some sort of claim that actually vaccinations are the bad, because A)He decided to do an experiment by not getting vaccinated himself, and hey nothing bad...
• Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
  Funny, Cory just posted about someone identifying elements of an "american cargo cult" mythos, including You can succeed by emulating the purported behavior of successful people...
• Commented on Super Bowl broadcast interrupted with porn
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAn3cTMXW8...
• Commented on Super Bowl broadcast interrupted with porn
  nothing will ever rival HEIDIBOWL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game...
• Commented on Bizarre sports videos
  Also glaringly omitted is the urban iditarod, or Idiotarod. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkYFG5dPT4...
• Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
  I appreciate that union representation has secured higher wages for employees in some industries. But this of course gives these employees greater purchasing power, potentially driving up prices, and thus putting nonunionized workers at a disadvantage, since they too have...
• Commented on Bruce Sterling on our global psychosis, ca. 2009
  SEED magazine is awesometacular. I love it. Best science mag hands down....
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  @86 "I don't quite get this 'they owe me' mentality, they made an offer, you accepted it -if you want something more, either ask for it where you are or go find it elsewhere." Unions are what happens when employees...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  @99 "What, in your opinion, keeps the Central and South American economies from growing in a stable, sustainable manner that benefits essentially all segments of society, the way the US's economy arguably has done for most of the twentieth century?"...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  @88 "loosers that could not care less for the company, doing nothing and getting paid outrageous $$!" that sounds exactly like a lot of these execs that drove their companies to need bailouts and now get huge bonuses. @people talking...
• Commented on Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart
  I find this little guy so adorable when his pieces are squirming towards each other....
• Commented on Clock for geeks
  if you believe 6.999... is equal to 7, then it is the same number. Two equivalent numbers are the same number. If they are not equivalent, then they are not the same number. But I bet we all agree (except...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  Brainspore, that wasn't me that was Master Gracy...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  Took some digging around for a real stat, but here's what I found: "46 percent of workers reported that management pressured them to oppose the union during the NLRB election process." "of those who signed an authorization card in the...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  @62/62 The secret ballot, in and of itself is great, but here's how the current, existing secret ballot system is not "allowing the freedom" to stand in solidarity: Democratic elections should have these things: • Equal access to voters by...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  It is easy for some of us to think that unions have "outlived their usefulness" with our current wage and safety laws that unions won in the past and the middle class they helped create. But for the past couple...