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• Commented on Police officer tasers a 10-year-girl who resisted being taken to a youth center
  To be fair, there's no indication with they taser girls, plural. Just a girl, singular. I wish there were more details. Not much chance they'll justify anything, but maybe she had just finished painting "DIE PIGS DIE!!" on the living...
• Commented on Space Invader war photography
  I'll never understand the obsession with adding lens flares to everything. It makes it look worse than amateur. But you know what would be cool? A font with lens flares on every letter. Really obnoxious ones. You could make a...
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  Kits like this, even in jest, make it worse for cyclists....
• Commented on A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport
  I think the Lotus Elise/Exige is a beautiful car, and by extension the Tesla, too. But there is more to the environment than tailpipe emissions. Batteries are a dirty business....
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  "Due diligence. It applies to both the big and the little guys. If you just happened to invest in a mutual fund without bothering to ask whether or not the people who managed it are conscientious and trustworthy, well... whose...
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  Yeah, score one for any people who happen to have a mutual fund owning stock shares in companies associated with this, as they don't have that level of fine control. Like special interests, Wall Street is made up of a...
• Commented on Leech provides evidence to convict robber
  I think Tasmaniac would be far cooler....
• Commented on Leech provides evidence to convict robber
  That's a really pretty leech, as far as leeches go....
• Commented on Boy missing after experimental balloon crash lands
  OK, so it wasn't a barn, it was an attic. Life emulates art....
• Commented on Boy missing after experimental balloon crash lands
  A bald guy who just escaped from an asylum says he turns out to be OK, he's just hiding in a nearby barn....
• Commented on The magic of Japanese space-saving products
  Generally, in Japan you carry around your own supply since there normally isn't any available in public restrooms, anyway....
• Commented on Report on a revival meeting for the creepy Process Church
  I don't think there's much chance of Scientology expanding much. The current new agers are all congregating to bastardized far eastern religions now. This is a bizarre one. Early Scientologists making a Scientology/Jesus Movement hybrid. Interesting... According to wikipedia, Best...
• Commented on Squirrel for dinner
  The problem with squirrels is that they are so hard to skin. It's such a chore to dress them out that I can't be bothered to go hunting for them anymore. Though I suppose I could cook them how the...
• Commented on Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms
  @27 why should he win the lawsuit lottery just because he was inconvenienced? It's not like he wasn't given an option, he just couldn't be bothered to go get his wife, whose account he was trying to draw funds off...
• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  @32 - beyond the already corrected math, most analgesic/pseudoephedrine mixes are exempt because you can't use them to make meth. That's why some require you to be put on the national list and some do not. Locally there has been...
• Commented on Inside Antiques Roadshow
  This would have been worth a bajillion dollars if it still had the original finish. *hint hint* But now it's worth a buck and a quarter....
• Commented on Hobbit advance payment fraud letter
  Thorin, Somehow I got copied on this email. Can I get in on this, too? I have some friends who would be interested as well. Bard...
• Commented on Lamp that runs on human blood
  @47 - I don't think luminol stays lit too long after exposed to the triggering catalyst. Poking around wikipedia I see a duration of 30 seconds in a dark room. Wikipedia also says it is triggered by horseradish. I think...
• Commented on Put a satellite into orbit for $8,000
  @1 - if their naming convention is consistent, you get about 1kg or so. They use graphics that poor, yet they're going to mine the moon and already sell moon rocks. If it was easier than "they" want you to...
• Commented on Lamp that runs on human blood
  @40 - If it is Luminol it is made from pretty nasty stuff like hydrazine. Plus, we don't know what the solvent is in the lamp, it doesn't dissolve in water. On the plus side, feces activate luminol, too. Unintended...
• Commented on Lamp that runs on human blood
  It's the smugness that annoys me. I wonder how toxic the chemicals involved are. I wonder how toxic the production of those chemicals is. It's not the hypocrisy, it's using the hypocrisy to talk down to everyone....
• Commented on Squishy bowls
  I'd like a cite on "food grade" asbestos, please....
• Commented on Squishy bowls
  @9 - Bisphenol A is used in plastics, not silicones. They're not the same. If you want to convince yourself that the sky is falling, though, by all means, go ahead....
• Commented on Squishy bowls
  @6 - Silicones aren't plastics, they're silicones....
• Commented on American health care UI: snapshot
  graphics > gameplay....
• Commented on Pop-up camper on a shopping cart
  The cgi is pretty jarring in that image for some reason....
• Commented on "Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a county fair escapes
  @14 - No, not quite. When you are not guilty by reason of insanity you are not guilty, no jail sentence. But you are put into a secure facility and treated until such a time as you are safe to...
• Commented on Terrifying huge breakfast is free if you eat it in 20 minutes
  @15 - Just think of the cholesterol! The ten eggs alone have about 18 pounds of cholesterol. Still can't figure out how they justify calling those things sausages....
• Commented on Rich Seattle suburbs install ubiquitous surveillance cameras, cops follow all "suspicious" vehicles
  @5 - Are you saying crime is tolerable? I wouldn't want a police chief going around telling people that they're going to tolerate a number of burglaries just to keep people guessing....
• Commented on Shel Silverstein's UNCLE SHELBY, not exactly a kids' book
  I had a social studies teacher in 7th grade that had confiscated a copy of the ABZ book many years before I got into his class, thinking it was a coloring book or something. Once a week we got a...