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• Commented on Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary bust
  yay police state...
• Commented on Drew Friedman: Barack Obama portrait
  oh noes! a presidential candidate is popular!...
• Commented on Profile of an NRA spy who infiltrated gun-control groups
  immoral? no illegal? no imprudent? maybe cunning? yes successful? apparently anti-gramma state. yes she sounds pretty cool to me...
• Commented on NASA: "We have water" on Mars.
  Someone else already referenced it, but: now we just need to get CA governor out there to make the place breathable....
• Commented on Food that turns from liquid to solid?
  tree sap...
• Commented on Youth Radio: Condomless sex is new "engagement ring"?
  "But, I thought we were...engaged." "Sorry, honey. I got cold feet, and then engaged someone else....
• Commented on Law prof and cop agree: never ever ever ever ever ever ever talk to the cops about a crime, even if you're innocent
  I don't know. I have been "interviewed" a few times by the police and I found it sort of interesting to see the tactics they use to elicit information. These weren't for very serious things, mind you, but the whole...
• Commented on Medical Marijuana and minors
  It sucks that we have to rely on the good will of a presidential candidate to stop our own government (employees) from being assholes....
• Commented on Man has blood alcohol level of 0.491
  At least we haven't gone the way of the nanny yet and banned alcoholic beverages, like we have some plants....
• Commented on Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky
  behaviorism schme-haviorism....
• Commented on US terrorist watchlist now has more than 1,000,000 names
  Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give...
• Commented on Beaming sounds into your head
  So, if the state can have it, why can't I?...
• Commented on America loves drugs
  "when they started" implies they currently use it we're not talking about people that started, then used it for an extended period, and then stopped that would be like saying that you were an alcoholic once, after drinking six beers...
• Commented on YouTube user data must be turned over to Viacom, judge rules
  This is a little confusing. If YouTube is responsible for what it posts (copyright or no), why are visitors to the site being sought after? Anyhow, after moving to a new job where the net admin is all too happy...
• Commented on Interview with editors of Architecture of Change
  New Yorkers use a tiny fraction of the energy (and everything else) of sprawling suburbanites. Yes, they use less energy than suburbanites. They use public transportation, which is more efficient, collectively, than everyone owning his own vehicle and driving into...
• Commented on Where does petroleum oil come from?
  dependent on a substance that we (the world) consume about 100 million barrels a DAY and we don't know where it comes from DOH!...
• Commented on Marijuana's anti-inflammatory compound
  WHAT!? How dare you say something positive about an illegal plant? You...you...COMMIE!...
• Commented on Born Dropped Out: The Hippie Kids Stories
  I was a hippie kid. Parents were vegetarians and Gramma was not. When I went to see Gramma, she fed me meat....
• Commented on Large Hadron Collider probably won't destroy Earth
  correct me if I'm wrong: the amount of energy required to "destroy the planet" is more than the amount of energy required to create tiny black whole....
• Commented on Scrubbing the atmosphere of CO2
  algae works quite well, but with all the dead spots cropping up in the oceans, who knows...
• Commented on UN security council classifies rape a "war tactic"
  http://www.google.com...
• Commented on UN security council classifies rape a "war tactic"
  The terminology makes no sense. In traditional military terms, a tactic is some small specific part of a strategy. For example, a strategy might be to cut off enemy supply lines. One tactic belonging to this overall strategy might be...
• Commented on UN security council classifies rape a "war tactic"
  War tactic? Does that mean genocide, slavery, torture, and infanticide are also war tactics?...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a Sesame Street YipYipYip costume
  I loved those guys as a kid yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip...
• Commented on Leaked Comcast PowerPoint paints a picture of a bumbling, evil, stupid monopolist
  I can attest to being one of those customers that continues to subscribe to cable, hates the company, and has no choice. But I use Charter....
• Commented on Debunking the climate-change denialists' talking-points
  recommended reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Samuel_Kuhn...
• Commented on Jets bomb desert drug find
  how much acreage of pot does it take to make 200 tons of hash?...
• Commented on Ancient Roman D20 for sale, $18,000
  Rome failed a saving throw with this die....
• Commented on "With the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee.”
  It drips!...
• Commented on U.S. Has No Remaining Grain Reserves
  Assuming the info is true (and I'm not sure I trust either the site or the agency at this point), what does it mean?...