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Commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
Notary Sojac, while it is tempting to think of the Court as liberal/conservative (and indeed, that works 90% of the time), the more accurate way to categorize the court is as Federalist/States Rights. When you consider the Court that way,...
Commented on TED Talk: Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes
#17, shawnhcorey I guess that explains the GOP!...
Commented on Supreme Court declares strip search of 13-year-old student unconstitutional
Oh, if you think Thomas' opinion on this is insane, wait 'til you read THIS story from a week ago. The SCOTUS made a 5-4 (I'll let you guess who the five were; non-Republicans should be able to guess easily)...
Commented on Eliot Spitzer explains himself
#15 rotundo, congratulations on being so hilariously incredibly wrong that it's almost comical! Spitzer didn't go after prostitution rings in a moral panic; he went after prostitution rings because they were big business for organized crime. He was trying to...
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I had no idea I really could scream like a little girl....
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Commented on Boing Boing Charitable Giving Guide -- the 2008 edition
I'd like to add a second mention for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders. The MSF is ten times the organization that the Red Cross is. Their administrative overhead is minuscule compared to the Red Cross. More importantly, MSF...
Commented on The English language in 3000 AD
Isaac Asimov has a book of essays and information on Shakespeare's writings. In it he makes the interesting claim that the reason English hasn't evolved much since Shakespeare's time is literally because we do not want to evolve such that...
Commented on Comcast tech calls grandpa a crook and disconnects him
#36, zuzu Nope. This is real bandwidth measured from Speedtest.net and newsgroup downloads from Giganews. 25 megabit is well within DOCSIS 2.0 specs. #37, Four Naught Four It was just a tactic he used to get the installation and first...
Commented on Comcast tech calls grandpa a crook and disconnects him
Here's my uncle's Comcast horror story from the last two weeks. I was spending the weekend with my aunt and uncle and noticed that their DSL service through Bellsouth was a whopping one megabit downstream bandwidth. And they were paying...
Commented on Max Silvestri got stuck in an elevator
@phillamb168, Umm, no. I said it's pretty hilarious. The above video is a PG-13 take on the joke. The one at Entensity is definitely an R....
Commented on Max Silvestri got stuck in an elevator
Ok, that's pretty humorous. Unfortunately, he was beaten to the punch. There's a pretty humorous spoof of the original floating around right now. One source is on entensity.net. This spoof centers on a joke Max goes for early on in...
Commented on Automatic guitar hero controller dongle
That is quite possibly the worst video tutorial I have ever seen....
Commented on Perfect length for a pop song: 2:42
This is why I listen to Classical (misnomer, I prefer the Modern period, 20th century music). Composers like Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Bartok haven't even finished warming up by 2:42. In other words: pop sucks, and I consider anything post Jazz...
Commented on Menacing infants in fiction, then and now
I came here to post about Bradbury's short story "The Silent Assassin." Unfortunately, I'm too late. I can post this though: apparently someone made a new film version of the short story last year. It's listed here on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031278/...

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dcamsam commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
where a liberal majority allowed Pfizer to purchase this land Thankfully, the pathetic appeal offered here and elsewhere was not persuasive to the "liberal" majority - is Kennedy "liberal" now? - who looked at the issue, and not which side had the more adorable client. The result was both practical and consistent with precedent. The people of New London - and yeah, the people, who elect the New London government and could have changed it if they don't like this behavior - had the power to redevelop for a public purpose if they wish, and while Kelo may not like...
blu commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
that is a pretty liberal stance, to allow Breyer to vote twice. I think you meant "Stevens" for one of the "Breyer"s....
Tim Cosgrove commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
Pfizer was behind the eminent domain seizure. Mark, whether that's true or not, the headline is inarguably incorrect. Again, Pfizer abandoned its plant in New London. It did not legally posses the land contested in Kelo vs. New London. It did not win the land, and it did not abandon the land....
the r kelly commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
I wrote a fairly detailed (for a comment) critique of this article and submitted it anonymously (not realizing I wasn't signed in.) I feel like it's kind of shitty that it would have been one of the first comments on this post--but now hasn't showed up by the time the post in question has already been relegated to the mini-capsule at the bottom of boingboing. Anyway: my point was that the real culprit is the City; and this sort of thing doesn't really belong in the courts but rather with the people spending the money and the legislatures that allow...
IronEdithKidd commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
Patrick, you are the only one insinuating A2 is in bad shape financially because of Pfizer. You might want to ask someone who lives on Summit or Fountain how they feel about crime in the City this year. "Cesspool" is your inflamatory word choice, not mine. That's a bit of FauxNews-speak there, Bub. Council would love to hear suggestions about what can be cut. I would suggest removing Argo Dam. Mwah ha haa!...

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