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• Commented on Church daycare drugged kids?
  The real scandal will hit when they confess they've been prescribinb the kids vinegar and honey for coughs....
• Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
  I genuinely fear for the day when we have a country run by the dumbest, most violent sector because those of us who are rational have been driven away by the futility of finding any candidate who is responsive to...
• Commented on College students arrested for not tipping
  If I ordered a bottle of wine and it never came, I wouldn't pay for it--would you? It sounds as if "service" was billed for, but never showed up at the table. If they're going to bill for something, it...
• Commented on Invasive Slugs Run Amok in Canada (Relatively Speaking)
  When I find slugs (1/2" size) in my garden, I throw them on the walk and give them an instant execution by shoe, but I don't think I'd be wanting to stomp any 4" ones!...
• Commented on Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever
  "Which raises the question: is it really copyright law's job to make sure that last years winners keep on winning? Or is it enough to ensure that there will always be winners? " None of the above. Copyright is to...
• Commented on 2012 Debunking: The Short-Attention-Span Version
  "There was another conspiracy-theory justification for 2012 that the Yezidi Black Book prophesized a comet coming which has been similarly interpreted to mean the end of Earth.. . ." Given the several asteroids zipping by every year, that one probably...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  Bottom line, here: if you want to know why customer service is so bad, read some of the above comments to see what they have to draw on for hires. This is an angry country we live in....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  By the way, plus points to the second person for telling you the truth about why she was pushing, and negative points to the first for dumping you as soon as possible without solving the problem completely....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  Solution: keep the big battery. You will be glad you have it when you see how long it lasts compared with the 3-cell. Meanwhile, go to Ebay, buy a new 3-cell battery for about $65. Everyone wins, except Dell (which...
• Commented on Hypothetical peek into the feverish mind of Rupert Murdoch
  hello whirled, I'm just riffing on the scenario envisioned in the article. :-) Like it or not, Rupert might be right, in spite of everyone wanting to think he's an idiot. You don't hear the big flushing sound emanating from...
• Commented on Hypothetical peek into the feverish mind of Rupert Murdoch
  The alternate plan could be that the Dems and Obama continue to make such donkeys of themselves with their politics of no change whatsoever, and their support and continuance of Bush crimes and Constitutional violations, that in the next election...
• Commented on Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music
  Perhaps, ultimately, this will all be good for live music and bands, and bad for music industry parasites....
• Commented on Council bans parents from play areas
  They aren't taking them from the parents at birth and raising them in special walled compounds? I thought they do that in England. God knows they're doing everything else 1984-style these days....
• Commented on Tickling the Dragon: Nuclear accidents in the US and Russia
  Not Chernobyl, no--I'm talking about the incessant advertisements trying to sell us "safe" nuclear power through the last quarter of the last century....
• Commented on Tickling the Dragon: Nuclear accidents in the US and Russia
  "But there are a ton of systems built in now that make them extremely unlikely. There hasn't been a criticality accident anywhere in 10 years. . . " Ah, maybe you weren't around the, 20 years ago when they were...
• Commented on Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating
  The lead paragraph you quote really isn't all that bad. Change it to two guys living together--say The Odd Couple--and you should easily understand that it's not good to marry someone you're obviously incompatible with and make each other miserable...
• Commented on European Internet sinking fast under 3-strikes proposals
  Yes, Cory, nothing unconstitutional ever happens in the world. We're completely safe. [/cynic]...
• Commented on European Internet sinking fast under 3-strikes proposals
  Gee, golly, when I said about the "French "three-strikes" copyright law passes -- but may be dead anyway" story and said "It's not clear to me how you can declare a law which has just passed "dead". It seems very...
• Commented on No cross-dressing at Morehouse College
  " stuhfoo: the students did vote on it, and it's a private institution..." So what? What if they voted to lynch the janitor, would that be OK with you, too?...
• Commented on No cross-dressing at Morehouse College
  They have some concrete reason for this rule, or are they just flexing their discriminatory muscles? I'm not really impressed....
• Commented on Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the paranormal industry
  echolocate, I can point you to two things which should interest you but probably will just send you off on an orgy of fault-finding: http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/tai-presents-dr-harold-hal-puthoff http://publicparapsychology.blogspot.com/2007/11/brain-response-to-future-event.html...
• Commented on Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the paranormal industry
  In case no one got my drift in the previous post, the "logic" of this TV program is exactly the same that the crackpots who say man never landed on the moon use to make their case....
• Commented on Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the paranormal industry
  We need a new term for this type of bad-logic debunking, where the implication is similiar to if I were to claim that because there have been people who could make copies of famous painters, the painters themselves do not...
• Commented on British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
  To the person who commented that this only applies for people looking to seat less than 24 hours ahead, you do realize that to fit those people in next to each other, they will have to move others, who will...
• Commented on British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
  Perhaps this is part of their new "Ransom Your Family" program: "I'm sorry sir, but we unilaterally decided to move your wife back to the last row, next to the bathrooms. If you ever want to sleep with her again,...
• Commented on Netflix is about to commit a privacy Valdez with its customers' viewing data
  You don't need to worry until the day your neighbor's fondness for watching "Reefer Madness" results in a SWAT team breaking your door down in the middle of the night, terrorizing your wife and kids and killing the dog because...
• Commented on Teacher asks YA author if virtual visit can take place "with us being able to see you, but you not being able to see us"
  Fear is the enemy....
• Commented on The US Government's bizarre obsession with Janet Jackson's nipple
  I think the only fair solution here is to remove football from TV programming forever. Or maybe to put it into the 2:00-4:00AM slot would be OK. We'll have to do a study and get back to you....
• Commented on Dramatic reading of a break-up letter
  Robin Williams, as John Houseman reads the phone book (SCTV):, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuxBUxTwAXI...
• Commented on Chip Rowe's essays
  " #8 posted by iopha: Scratch an allegedly frivolous lawsuit, find an interesting case: the infamous McDonald's coffee suit is regularly trotted out when it's time to bash the legal system or the people who abuse it, but the details...