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• Commented on Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
  Slicklines wrote: "Some nasty e-mails escape from one side, and it means their whole theory is wrong, yet a shill for big oil (and underwritten by them still--again by his own admission) is not even questioned by you." I indeed...
• Commented on Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
  This article is an example of repeated use of the straw man argument. It takes the worst and most shoddy skeptical arguments of all time, and in flogging such dead horses it acts as a smoke screen to hide what...
• Commented on Scientist explains why climate scientists talk trash
  This is *not* how rugby is played in other fields, sir!...
• Commented on Debunking the climate-change denialists' talking-points
  The snide certainty of tree huggers about "settled science" (based on computer models only the gases of the most complex gas/water/solid/life system known) isn't what bothers me so much, but that their solutions avoids the utterly obvious use of nuclear,...
• Commented on Albert Hofmann, LSD inventor, RIP
  Playboy 1994 interview with Bill Gates: PLAYBOY: Ever take LSD? GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago. PLAYBOY: What does that mean? GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended...
• Commented on Old comic book depicts US suicide bomber as hero
  The Leftist anti-capitalistic, anti-Western bent of BB is exposed enough without you having to rub it in. Are there and CIVILIANS in this image? Or a children's school bus or two? Or hint of the fact that 9/11 was similar...
• Commented on Datto 500 NAS stores your data off-site, too
  Warning Will Rogers. These specific drives often are cheap because they use a non-firmware-upgradable "Type A" Prolific chipset instead of the much better Oxford chipset. Mainly this means they wont chain via Firewire, but work fairly well with USB, both...
• Commented on Woman goes on YouTube to air divorce grievances
  MILF alert. God I love difficult, zany women. The reason people become "infantile" in marriages (failure rate now about 70%) is that they revert to an infantile state in which their needs are expected to be automatically met, without having...
• Commented on Creepily lifelike CGI woman
  What's most creepy is how well it captures the idiotic fake-shyness of Japanese girls in western nations. Who me? Though I have hangover and can barely stand up due to what that black guy did to my robotic nether regions...
• Commented on America's new subprime shanty-towns
  "I call bullshit on this. I saw a version of this story on BBC America. They pointed out that most of these people are homeless due to drug addiction or mental illness." Whores in NYC are better then? So I'll...
• Commented on Award-nominated malaria pics
  Malaria is something very easy to wipe out with utterly non-toxic DDT (non-toxic to humans or birds, unlike Rachel Carlson's panic-scare book 'Silent Spring' claimed). Mainly takes houses or mud huts painted with a think veneer of DDT and bed...
• Commented on Anne Sanger's fashion illustrations
  The best combination I've found, having tested ALL ink-dip nibs and ALL papers (literally dozens each) and most available india inks is: Brause 511 "crow quill" (meaning smallest size so needs a small holder) nib (hard to find so order...
• Commented on Humanity's Identity Crisis
  Translation: "A major theme of this present century, and last, and the last, and the last, will be the pursuit of our collective identity." "One must have noisy celebrations for the populace. Fools love noise, and the masses are fools."...
• Commented on Lady with a Unicorn (c.1505)
  Beautiful. I have not seen this in Raphael books, so don't know if I'm being scammed by some Photoshop trend of the week, but do know that Leonardo has a very similar painting which is sublime (if the link breaks...
• Commented on Israeli citizens sue government for lack of ray-gun defense
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• Commented on Sex-trade clients speak
  Why is prostitution illegal? Same reason printing money on your inkjet printer is illegal. But not quite. Why are consensual crimes illegal? Who will turn the other into the police (who are, by the way trapped in the middle, oath...
• Commented on Dave Stevens RIP 1955-2008
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• Commented on 8th grade honor student suspended for buying candy from classmate
  R.U. Sirius tried to ride the coattails of Timothy Leary to fame, having missed out on the Beat Generation and the Summer of Love. He's really a druggie. I don't trust him. More of a politician than a philosopher. Sirius...
• Commented on Voiceless microphone
  Liars. They are both patenting MIND READING as well as shutting these secret classified patents up by issuing misleading ones. Sub-vocalization in the neck MUSCLES is literally thinking outloud, practically speaking outload. Do you think, no, that putting the detection...
• Commented on Meet the beetle
  Ladybugs are beatles. So are both German (small) and American (huge) cockroaches. My two NYC cats means that we never see live roaches 'round here, but cats being so proud, they drop dead things in their path, thus I praise...
• Commented on 9/11 and drinking water security
  One of the funniest and funnest things about Manhattan is that every old building (meaning 90% of them) have old "Farmer Joe" type of wooden-slat-barrel water tanks on top of them, held together by rusty but tenacious iron bands. Manhattan,...
• Commented on Flowchart: How D&D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness
  You left something out. Something was not added. "The Community." FastSeduction.com is the D&D version of it. Thousands of men, all "keyboard jockeys" who don't get laid. I cannot publicly offer links, since the people involved are very small self-published...
• Commented on The collected controversies of William F. Buckley
  "This guy was CIA in his youth was he not?" So was Timothy Leary. Do not spit on graves of the brave, despite foibles, youthful indiscretions, or eventual jabs at youth. Voltaire. Oscar Wilde. Bucky Fuller. Richard Feynman. "How many...
• Commented on Muppet popculture photoshopping contest
  Philosophical quandary for males: what if your were bored with your girlfriend. Really bored. And along comes a Miss Piggy type, age 19 instead of 39, so fat is really just baby fat, and, well, you know, she, uh, "gets...
• Commented on Montana Governor explains why Real ID sucks
  Meep meep! More ACME Co. rockets needed, and suspension of the laws of both nature and man....
• Commented on Heathrow Terminal 5 to fingerprint domestic passengers
  When in the Course of airport events, it becomes necessary for one airport to dissolve the customer service bands which have connected them with consumers, and to assume among the steely powers of the night sky, a separate station to...
• Commented on Arizona students stage hug-a-thon to protest 2-second hug rule detentions
  Who? Actually if you mean me, since I've had awful memories coming back to me tonight about the prison that was suburban high school in Minnesota, full of underpaid emotionally-abusive teachers. But nobody said the "STUPID NIGGERS WERE GETTING UPPITY"...
• Commented on Arizona students stage hug-a-thon to protest 2-second hug rule detentions
  From their handbook: "Students may not wear potentially distracting signs to call attention to them. This includes, but is not limited to, birthday or other congratulatory signs. 5th dress code violation. Same as 3rd violation, except student receives three days...
• Commented on Arizona students stage hug-a-thon to protest 2-second hug rule detentions
  Just more hugs as protest? How about buying a a case of orange box cutters, collecting blood in buckets, mixing it with their cut-off hair and throwing the gunk at the school? Oh, I see, it's just *girls* involved. Sorry....
• Commented on Steve Lodefink guestblogging Dinosaurs and Robots
  Coconut milk, unlike bitter instead of sweet cow milk, tastes like human milk. High milage lapdance days in NYC were the source of this observation. A search shows that sites that sell coconut bras are all out of D cups,...