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• Commented on National Review cover illo of Sonia Sotomayor
  Luckily, only right wing magazines are racist. http://howard53545.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/1996-emerge-magazine-cover-thomas-lawn-jocket-for-the-far-right/ Or not....
• Commented on Steampunk casemod in honor of new game Damnation
  Must...control...steampunk...lust....
• Commented on Organize a town-hall to talk about dealing with the screwed-up economy
  I'd like MY irony with a side of extra schadenfreude, please. A review of the list of "Sponsors and Elder Counselors" (a term that screams "pomo douchery") on the ANWF site reads like a list of People Least Likely To...
• Commented on Krassner: Stewart was right the first time
  May I recommend Bill Whittle's summary of the "war criminal question" as it regards the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? http://www.pjtv.com/video/Afterburner_/Jon_Stewart%2C_War_Criminals_%26_The_True_Story_of_the_Atomic_Bombs/1808/ The entire revisionist Truman-as-war-criminal meme is a second-order effect of decades of global stability and prosperity, wrought in part...
• Commented on If the banks are so healthy, how come we're all still broke?
  Douglas: Excellent points and a valuable history lesson. The personal angle and cultural aspect of just how deeply embedded Rubin/Paulson/et al (Geithner almost uniquely so) in the entire Wall Street culture these men are would disqualify them from any standard...
• Commented on Photo: Lockheed M-21 engine
  What stuns me is that the SR-71 was designed by guys with sliderules....
• Commented on San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
  I feel so much safer now. Eye roll....
• Commented on Zogby poll: 52% of Americans support legalization of pot
  The question wording was a bit um thick and I have my reservations about Zogby, but I've seen other surveys with the number in the same general range. A plurality if not a majority are ready for legalization. There will...
• Commented on Liberal hunting permit
  Ok...let's try a test. http://bit.ly/Jp2yO...
• Commented on Liberal hunting permit
  Mark: Yeah, that clown collage was speakin' truth to power, all right. Boy, you shure showdt us iggnerant rednecks Republicans a thang or tu about yer sophisticated city-folk post-modern sense of i-ro-nee an hows ya'll's pal dekonstructed the parrydime of...
• Commented on Landlord harasses murder victim's mother for early termination fees because her son was killed before his lease ran out
  Industrial-grade douchery....
• Commented on Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel
  Haven't we learned from FECA, BCRA and the rest of the campaign finance reforms yet? They all fail because they seek to restrict money rather than to enhance transparency. Money will always find a way into campaigns (setting aside that...
• Commented on Entertainment industry's greedy lobbying is their undoing
  The dirty little secret of lobbyists is that they make bank, win or lose. (I know: I hire them from time to time and then take a long, hot shower.) They don't mind losing the fight this time... they'll just...
• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  @#30 Sorry, swing and a miss, Keiran....
• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  I await your LEGO interpretations of the beheading of Daniel Pearl or Ken Bigley...because THAT was a particularly medieval form of torture, don't you think? Or perhaps we'll see your stunning LEGO recreation of the the murder of 3000 Americans...
• Commented on UAE plans ban on negative economic reporting
  Oh well we just won't mention the abandoned cars, the suddenly empty job sites and the other general signs of the financial apocalypse...that'll make it all better. Our media may ramp the panic up too high, but the opposite strategy...
• Commented on BB Video: Photographer Glen E. Friedman - Early Hip Hop, and The Liberty Street Protest
  Is dissent still patriotic in a post-Bush America? Just checking....
• Commented on Pretend cops bully videographer, videographer wins
  Nanny-state meets surveillance-state, with the predictably ugly result....
• Commented on Aga Four Oven Cooker skips whiz-bang for cast iron badassery
  As the owners of an Aga Six-Four (the little cousin of this one) and although the installation and infrastructure to move the beast into place was an adventure in itself, we love it. Gas up top, electric for the ovens....