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• Commented on Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth
  When TWA 800 went down in 1996 there was a similar conspiracy theory that it was to work of a Navy cruiser. That theory gained less traction because the free flow of ideas on the Internet was less robust then....
• Commented on 86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: "What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"
  He said he was from Biddeford....
• Commented on Vampire-hunting technologies of yore
  I saw one for $500 at a flea market in Rapid City, S.D., right after the Soviet Union broke up. (It looked old and had crosses, a stake and mallet.) Probably put together by some innovative laid-off GRU cop and...
• Commented on Death of popular Indian politico sparks wave of suicides and deaths from "shock"
  Too bad the fans of Rush, Hannity and Beck don't feel the same devotion....
• Commented on Massive dance-number wedding entrance
  That was the happiest-looking bride I've ever seen! The shades on everyone were a nice touch, too....
• Commented on Lancaster, PA: the most spied-upon town in America
  This is a very expensive surveillance system designed to guard a very controversial public/private development project in the center city. I'd certainly like to know who is paying for it. I was born in Lancaster and moved away as soon...
• Commented on Just Another Giant Hole...
  Even among urban pits, the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, beats the Siberians: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_697.html As for the helicopters, maybe they got caught in what we around here call the "Butte Vortex."...
• Commented on BB Video + PopSci: Frozen on Video - Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen
  My dentist gave me a vial of mercury when I was about 8 and I played with it in my hands all the time. (Twitch...) I always thought it make the better Dick Tracey murder weapon than ice bullets, since...
• Commented on Miles O'Brien Blogging the Air France Crash: The Search for Black Boxes
  If the Navy's SOSUS net is still active in that region, they'd probably have a location for the splash or the debris breaking up on the way down....
• Commented on Geoengineering wishful thinking is the new climate denialism
  The deniers have recently stuck on the "religion" angle -- I guess because they keep getting beat on the facts. I suggest we send all the deniers to Mars where they can geoengineer to their heart's content. Or we could...
• Commented on Covering a Court Case: Journalism and Law Students
  The stuff mined in Libby, sold under the name Zonolite, contains a particularly nasty kind of asbestos -- tremolite-actinolite asbestiform mineral fibers. It's like the plutonium of asbestos. It was repackaged at sites all over the country that are now...
• Commented on Bird dances to music
  I wanna see a flock of 'em doing the Electric Slide....
• Commented on Britain's no-photographing-cops law: even the cops hate it
  Since it's well known that the Amish are averse to having their pictures taken, I suspect they have somehow infiltrated Parliament....
• Commented on About US Airways Flight 1549
  In October 1956, Pan Am Flight 943 ditched in the Pacific near a coast guard cutter and all were rescued. I used to know a guy who was a 6-year-old passenger on that plane and I think it left him...
• Commented on Best Job in the World
  Whoever it was at Tourism Queensland who thought this up deserves a million-dollar raise! The total tonnage of free publicity it generated is amazing....
• Commented on The Newspaper Industry and the Arrival of the Glaciers
  Two years ago I bailed out of the newspaper biz. I had spent three decades in it -- in small towns -- because it was fun chasing stories as a reporter and later as an editor. Chain papers are dying...
• Commented on Bicycle bell camera mount
  I made a sub-pocket sized tripod thusly: Get a 1/4-inch eyebolt. Get a length of nylon cord the length of a loop from your outstretched feet to your camera focusing position. By pulling up on the camera you create a...
• Commented on Bob Garfield: Presidential candidates should promise not to lie.
  Since this was in Ad Age, I got another idea. How 'bout the advertising industry getting some friggin' ethics? I know advertising's been about creative lying and deception since its inception, but I think many of our country's problems today...
• Commented on Mounties review Tasers, conclude that they're dangerous, misused and under-researched
  There's a right-wing, "Christian" political component to Taser Inc.'s management, too. When Montana Gov. Judy "I'm a lapdog for industry" Martz was thrown out of office (after personally destroying evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation of her chief of staff...
• Commented on Fox TV news anchors enjoy plastic coffee
  "You want sports with that?"...
• Commented on Uncontacted tribe in Amazon
  It's obvious from the aerial photograph that they've developed weapons of mass destruction and we need to invade immediately....
• Commented on Ford dealership uses bigoted radio ads to sell cars
  Saw a bumper sticker once: When the RAPTURE comes, can I have your car?...
• Commented on Ford dealership uses bigoted radio ads to sell cars
  I really cannot conceive of a more bankrupt theology than one which is used to sell automobiles. Make me want to run out and sell my T-bird....
• Commented on Woman told to remove nipple rings for Texas flight
  The DHS today announced a TSA alert after the CIA indicated it had intelligence that Iran is supplying Al Qaeda with Model 36DD Fragmentation Bazooms. In a related story, TSA announced a 500 percent increase in teenage males applying for...