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• Commented on Abstinence-only rappers sing about the "Christian Side Hug"
  This just makes me sad....
• Commented on What's Your Christmas Card List Got to Do With the Development of the Human Brain?
  "a safety net in case you, personally, don't hunt or gather up enough food" Neanderthal socialism. Of course libertarians are gonna claim we evolved past that stage. I just find it comforting that taking care of one in another, in...
• Commented on Stonehenge: virtual 3D animation
  actually, that makes sense. thanks!...
• Commented on Stonehenge: virtual 3D animation
  Don't want to be that guy, but why is the landscape beige? It looks like a desert, not England's green and pleasant land....
• Commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
  Really? Hasselhoff's a DILF? In my book, Palin's no MILF anyway. Could never understand the she's-crazy-but-hot nonsense. The only MILF worthy of the name is Lorelai Gilmore....
• Commented on Man learns that Charles Manson is his biodad
  The crime is first degree murder. It's still murder even if you don't do the physical killing: he set up the situation, the motive, in one case tied the victims up. Hitler didn't personally kill anyone either (as far as...
• Commented on Muppets singing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  I didn't realize Janice is the guitarist and Sgt. Floyd Pepper played bass. Thought it was the other way around....
• Commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
  Hey, don't lump Fabio in with her. By all accounts he seems like an ok guy. How about Palin/Hasselbeck 2012? Palin/Stein? Palin/Cable Guy?...
• Commented on Kangaroo attacks man and attempts to drown his dog
  And they provide the stock photo to lull us into a false sense of security through benign cuteness....
• Commented on Couple charged with trying to sell fake Warhols
  Exactly what I was thinking. I'm not an art forger, nor a fraud artist. But if I were to go down that route, I think I'd assume something that obvious and stupid would fool no one and work hard at...
• Commented on 16 Golden Retrievers Teach You About Atoms
  This always explained it for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbqIJZ8wCM...
• Commented on Let's blow up the moon
  That's cool. I wonder what sort of religious mythologies would have developed over this?...
• Commented on Photographs of residents in their tiny flats in Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate
  This is a crass generalization perhaps, but it's interesting how much more "homey" the spaces occupied by women are then the mens' spaces....
• Commented on Humans are domesticating themselves with smaller brains as a result
  I'm not worried. I don't understand any of this. Bliss....
• Commented on Meow Mix
  Mine too. I couldn't decide if they were worried by something it said or just startled....
• Commented on Meow Mix
  Is there a black cat theme today on boingboing?...
• Commented on Invasive Slugs Run Amok in Canada (Relatively Speaking)
  When I read that, I thought you meant we should be contacted Margaret Atwood with our slug-related question. Which I might still do....
• Commented on Hit the Bitch
  I'm not sure I understand your comment. Are you talking self-defense? He should have grabbed a knife and pointed it at her? That doesn't sound like it would end well, and it would then become a he-said she-said situation. I'll...
• Commented on Invasive Slugs Run Amok in Canada (Relatively Speaking)
  This fellow might have slipped into my house a week or two ago in Toronto. One of my cats was particularly interested in our back door. I saw this thing at the bottom of the door. It's an old house...
• Commented on Moose mounts an American bison statue
  The majestic møøse...
• Commented on Affectionate kitteh distracts cop
  Black cats are the best (with apologies to our other two non-black cats). They're the hardest to get adopted at the Humane Society because of stupid superstitions, plus they're really hard to photograph well (so no cute Adopt Me! photos...
• Commented on Exploded human skull in a bell-jar
  OK, maybe I'm just dumb or didn't take too many science classes, but what's an exploded skull? I'm going to assume that's not literal....
• Commented on Cannibals reportedly sold body parts to kebab vendor
  Having quickly scanned Wikipedia's entry on cannibalism and clicked through a few external links, a lot of what I mentioned above seems to be tied to the Soviet genocidal famines in the 30s, especially in Ukraine. They're stories told by...
• Commented on Cannibals reportedly sold body parts to kebab vendor
  I've read elsewhere that this sort of thing reappears throughout Russian history when times are bad. During famines there have been reports of not only people resorting to cannibalism but some sort of market-system turning up, where people sold their...
• Commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
  You kid, but Hitler's musical tastes were not limited to Wagner. The volk music of Strauss and others was of utmost importance to some even more contemptible political views....
• Commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
  Oh God. That is so friggin German. I remember reading a while back about a growing interest in Klezmer music in Germany. One thing that stood out was the sense that the Germans believed they understood the music better than...
• Commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
  4) Born again Christian is still very much in use, unfortunately. My sister and her husband (and even more unfortunately my niece and nephew) are born again and use the term....
• Commented on 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style
  Like what Keith said, only he said it better than me....
• Commented on 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style
  First: Dali, not-so-great. Second: It's interesting that when someone disagrees with the so-called truthers, then they are "sheep" and only able to see the world in black and white, only able to see the one (official) version of things and...
• Commented on "Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it."
  I think those who are supposed to get over it are the black community who deny that he was bisexual, as if this would have anything to do with what he did as an activist....