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• Commented on "Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it."
  The whole issue seems pretty irrelevant to me either way. It doesn't matter if any of those people were gay or straight or bi-sexual (or for some of the people mentioned in the article, black). If being a certain race,...
• Commented on Digging in to the donor details at Kiva.org
  I'm a Kiva lender and I love it. Yeah, it's not perfect, but it works better for me than most of the other giving options I've seen. I'm still investing 25 bucks in an entrepreneur's business who's less fortunate than...
• Commented on Supreme Master Television
  I'm thinking that even if the food at the restaurants was delicious and the staff didn't seem too pushy about their agenda, food prepared by a group like that would be too scary for me. I guess the high profile...
• Commented on The Secret of Liquid Smoke
  I like to mix a little liquid smoke in canned tuna and mix that with cream cheese and spread it on crackers....
• Commented on The Secret of Liquid Smoke
  I use it my beans. It gives them a nice flavor without having to use a meat like ham or bacon....
• Commented on Guy in Egypt orders "artificial hymen kit" over the internet, blogs about it
  I think maybe the likelihood of having a hymen still intact by the time you have sex for the first time and how difficult or painful it is may depend a little on how old you are when you lose...
• Commented on Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating
  Even though much of the advice in the book is bad and dated, at least kids were apparently getting some sort of advice back then. These days, there seems to be no education whatsoever in high schools to help kids...
• Commented on How to memorialize friends who have passed away on Facebook
  This is an awesome idea. I don't use facebook, so I don't know exactly how it works, but on myspace it would be a nice feature. Like sometimes friends of mine who've passed away turn up in the "people you...
• Commented on Ralph Lauren fires photo-chopped model for being too big
  I'd bashed Ralph Lauren in the first thread. The photoshop was awful and the legal threat was uncalled for. However, I've got to stand by them on this part. Firing her for not meeting their criteria for models is fine....
• Commented on Junky Styling: a manual for thrift-shop clothes-remixers
  Sounds like a very cool book. I like to re-mix thrift store finds,too. It's the perfect happy medium for me between hand-making pieces from scratch and buying ready-made stuff. I also recommend re-working thrift stuff as a great jumping off...
• Commented on The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!
  Here's a copy/paste of the response they sent me to my email (minus the contact info they gave me if I still wanted to discuss it further) "Thank you for contacting RalphLauren.com customer assistance. We apologize for any inconvenience and...
• Commented on The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!
  I just emailed Ralph Lauren and let them know that they're wrong, both for false accusations of copyright infringement, and for that advertisement itself. I let them know that I won't be buying anymore Ralph Lauren products if they keep...
• Commented on Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing
  Part of it's probably because if you can sell a bottle of water and you can't make money off a fountain. So if you're the owner of a business or the city that owns a park or library, it's in...
• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  Hopefully the citizens where the prosecutor holds office will vote her out. Not only is she prosecuting someone that pretty much no reasonable citizen would want to see punished for that, she's wasting the court's time and taxpayer money on...
• Commented on Will a clean fridge get you laid?
  Ito Kagehisa- I don't think it's the kind of pork fat that you're thinking of. It's probably not lard like grease. It's probably lardo, the Italian cured pork fat....
• Commented on Jedi says Tesco discriminated against him
  Gloria- Thanks for the insight on the UK hoodie issue. I'm American wasn't aware of the situation over there....
• Commented on Will a clean fridge get you laid?
  I'm way too disorganized myself for that guy to be a good match for me. However, if I were a more organized lady, I'd be very impressed. There's more to that photo than meets the eye initially. Yeah, he's organized...
• Commented on Jedi says Tesco discriminated against him
  It doesn't make sense to me why the store would have a problem with hoods in general. A hood doesn't seem that big a disruption to the other shoppers. Hooded sweatshirts are very popular in my area and no one...
• Commented on Dan Brown's latest book takes down freemasons.org
  They should get it up and running and put a few ads up on it so that they can rake in a little revenue off of the new visitors. I can see not wanting to make money off of your...
• Commented on Roll-up readymade herb garden
  I think this is cool. I couldn't find a price for them anywhere,though. I'm not any good at gardening and don't really have the time for it, but would love to have some fresh herbs or veggies. Something like that...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  For starters, I'm an American so I don't know a lot about the way they do things in Canada, but... I think it would be nice if the public had free or better access to the things that tax payer...
• Commented on Mix-CD-of-the-month-club features ripped music from thrifted Singapore vinyl
  I'm with Nosehat. This is cool and I'd like to hear it, but I don't see how it's possibly not infringement. Sounds like the albums were commercially produced albums too new to be in the realm of public domain yet...
• Commented on Possible B.O. ban in Honolulu
  The bus in my town has rules like that already in place. They work pretty well. It's really the kind of thing that is only enforced when it needs to be. The driver doesn't sniff the pits of every passenger...
• Commented on Cocaine dealers hurt by recession
  I bet there's a big difference between the change in coke business depending on what kind of business the particular dealer was used to. The guy dealing to folks that were already at or near the bottom of the economic...
• Commented on Banned books 08-09 from ALA/ABA
  The bad news...Books are still being banned. The good news...Books are still out there. Libraries are still open. Kids are still going to them. Books are still enticing enough to be something some parents have to fear. As much as...
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  For working people living within their means (instead of charging things on credit), the more expensive well-crafted stuff just isn't a realistic option. Yes, we know the fancy Italian leather boots will be higher quality and will be able to...
• Commented on IKEA sends breastfeeder to the toilets
  Akbar56, I'm child-free,too, and with you that breastfeeding shouldn't be seen as something gross. It would be okay with me personally if mothers wanted to feed in public. But lots of people don't feel that way about it. It makes...
• Commented on IKEA sends breastfeeder to the toilets
  While breastfeeding in public is legal and natural, that doesn't make it polite or welcome. Yes, she has the right to whip out her breast and feed the baby wherever she wants to, but she should recognize that she also...
• Commented on Love in 2D
  The part that disturbs me is not that the "girlfriends" are 2D cartoon characters, but that they're cartoons of little girls. If it was cartoons of obviously adult women, it would be a lot less unsettling. Even though it's a...
• Commented on Ads as Soulcatchers
  I've never attended one, but it seems to me that having a handful of mega-churches might be more financially efficient than having a whole lot of separate little churches. Consolidated overhead, greater purchasing power for better deals on things the...