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• Commented on British cops arrest people just to add them to the DNA database, claims inquiry
  If only someone could have predicted that the police would mis....Wait. What?...
• Commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
  I have to agree that this is overtly political. Only a conservative right-winger could fit into some of those questions in the RWA. As to the author's claim of a lack of LW authoritarians, I ask,"have you been living under...
• Commented on Moose mounts an American bison statue
  Hence the reply @ #5...
• Commented on Moose mounts an American bison statue
  My sister was once bitten by a moose....
• Commented on SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops
  Back when I was going to the kind of parties that have the cops show up, we RAN....
• Commented on Jim Muir benefit poster by Shepard Fairey and Glen E. Friedman
  dot...hand...dot...hand...dot...hand...god stop...board...dot...hand..no...more...dot.........
• Commented on Infographic: Projected pot tax revenues
  I think the biggest obstacle is seizure laws. The police don't want to give up their cash cow in the form of pot smokers assets. I still think the biggest economic benefit will be from hemp if MJ is legalized....
• Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
  I don't think it is so strange for an atheist to also be a moral absolutist. The "live and let live" attitude that you ascribe to moral relativism may be caused by a belief that a huge swath of human...
• Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
  By current US standards, signing off on the execution of 200 people (who may or may not be guilty) with a hard heart isn't mass murder- it's Texas. I think the numbers were a little higher in Che's case, but...
• Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
  I really doubt you'd have the same objection if someone in the GWB administration said it. I'm sorry, but you have me mistaken for a Republican. I hated the Bush administration and the wars they started. I think almost everything...
• Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
  How about the way he earned the title, "Butcher of La Cabana"? Or do you also support tracking down and killing anyone that disagrees with you politically? But he really wanted kids to learn to read, so that's ok....
• Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
  When you consider the war that the person Anita Dunn is quoting was fighting and the 40 million dead because of it, it's a little disconcerting....
• Commented on Tales from a kangaroo shooter
  With regards to the comment about deer not being pests, you are simply wrong. it's not a matter of perspective. It's about unintended consequences. The natural predator of the deer, the wolf, was eliminated from the ecosystem in most of...
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  How about using a little math? I did this quickly, so I could be wrong. By my calculations a snow globe with a volume of 3oz will have a circumference no more than 6.8in or 17.4cm. I mean all they...
• Commented on Willie Nelson beats Snoop Dogg at smoking pot
  I have to go with Anon#2. I have never heard that phrase used any other way. Willie got Snoop high....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  I have to agree with SamSam. When I first saw this I was a little confused. This is why I think they need to have better directions for the parents that never were taught this way, so they can help...
• Commented on Oil running out faster than the International Energy Agency admits, says whistleblower
  That description makes OPEC sound a lot more capable than I have seen. OPEC countries are notorious for being bad at making decisions about investing in production capability. I believe this is assumed to be b/c the oil companies, in...
• Commented on Oil running out faster than the International Energy Agency admits, says whistleblower
  But if they were forced to pump less oil, wouldn't the price increase and they would have a higher margin because the the disparity between supply and demand? Or alternatively might you not see countries leaving the cartel because complying...
• Commented on Oil running out faster than the International Energy Agency admits, says whistleblower
  I still don't understand why the energy companies would underestimate oil reserves. Underestimation should drive prices down which means they earn less profit. Since companies like BP have diversified out of being an oil only company, it would seem like...
• Commented on Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?
  Malthusians amuse me. First there was going to be a population bomb. That didn't pan out and now they are confronted with declining birth rates and a topping off of population at around 2050 and IIRC 9bil. Oh well, that...
• Commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
  To appear as though you have thoughtfully weighed the opinions of experts but decided that their narrow understanding of chemistry blinded them to the dangers to which are children are exposed. Who else is going to think of the children?...
• Commented on Charts showing how much US residents pay for health care compared to people in other countries
  Utter nonsense. These costs are easily comparable between countries. Even countries with a subsidised healthcare system have billing and charges for items like these - as well as private healthcare available via insurance. These billing costs have nothing to do...
• Commented on California's true bankruptcy: kids and the future.
  Again the LA Times proves it isn't worth the paper on which it is written. She makes a big deal about distribution in CA, but then waxes longingly of all the money we could spend if we could only collect...
• Commented on My son, the nude model
  I used to be one of the people doing the drawing, but being a life drawing model isn't the easiest thing in the world. Holding a pose for a long time is difficult. Also, you only need a body not...
• Commented on Shareable: stories of sharing and cooperation
  IMO, the kindergarten version of sharing is much more akin to communism than the latter. Being forced to share is not sharing. I've always thought voluntary sharing was a good thing, the problem comes when there is coercion. That is...
• Commented on Identical tract houses after 50 years of personalization
  @hisdevineshadow I really doubt that was much of a problem in the US as they are rapidly personalized. However, I had some conversations with people that lived in Soviet Block Housing while studying architecture in Prague that indicated a problem...
• Commented on Identical tract houses after 50 years of personalization
  How about fake snow and a super hot Christmas Tree? Christmas at Youngwood Court...
• Commented on Identical tract houses after 50 years of personalization
  Well Apoxia if you like ostentatious greek statues, you'll love this Youngwood Court celebrates MJ...
• Commented on La-Z-Boy in drunk driving debacle headed for eBay, "Hell Yeah It's Fast" sticker included
  ok apoxia, but does any of that hazard justify taking his stuff and selling it for a profit?...
• Commented on La-Z-Boy in drunk driving debacle headed for eBay, "Hell Yeah It's Fast" sticker included
  Ugh, forfeiture laws are the reason why cops don't want to give up the WOD. Who doesn't want free stuff?...