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• Commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
  I have less trouble entering countries in Europe than I do leaving the US where I am a citizen. Last time I was leaving for Paris the TSA dude shoved me in that weird blowing air booth thing because I...
• Commented on San Francisco police officer arresting skateboarder: "I'll break your arm like a fckng twig."
  I really don't understand why people have such a problem with skateboards. My whole life - and I am old enough to be those kids' mother, I have never been hit with a skateboard. On the other hand, I have...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  Oh ha ha! Heavenly Father! Absolutely right! I have to admit I was apparently not steeped in the religion like your family was. And I grew up in Mesa Az - like I think you did - in the 25th...
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  Well, I am delighted to return to find that the biggest problem people found with my post was the number of witches burned. Okay, that's fine, I stand corrected. I will take the lowest figure offered here, 40,000. Then I...
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  Humans invent religions. Some humans are men. Historically, men have used religion, and the fear of the unknown / fear/love of non-existent deities to control who in their cultures can receive property, who can run a country, who will control...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  Well, I tried to post this on the Hijab board, but when I pressed submit comments were turned off...I'd rather post it there, and may do if comments get turned back on... Humans invent religions. Some humans are men. Historically,...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  The comment box on the Hijab post disappeared. Or maybe it just disappeared for me. When I clicked on submit it logged me out and now there is no comment box there, although I could presumably still comment other places,...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  What it all comes down to is that the US freaked out after 9/11 and started treating all Arabs / Muslims like crap. Now that time has passed they realize how wrong and immoral that reaction was and so they...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  I guess I am puzzled by the statement "It's another way Muslims have been able to adapt to local cultures and customs without compromising their beliefs, an issue many religions face today." In just what way is forcing women to...
• Commented on Soda pop bottle caps
  As a kid, I was really enamoured with Ernie's (?) Bert's (?) bottle cap collection on Sesame Street....
• Commented on Unusual police sketch
  His ancestors: http://www.maitres-des-arts-graphiques.com/-Expo2/-EXB19.html...
• Commented on Teacher asks YA author if virtual visit can take place "with us being able to see you, but you not being able to see us"
  I totally disagree with #66 posted by zantony, I think the author SHOULD pull out at the last minute for being asked to abide by such rules, thus absolutely PUNISHING the students. Or maybe begin the chat and explain why...
• Commented on Review: Two weeks with the simplehuman dual bin rectangular step can
  Ha ha - I came here to leave a message about the dog poop in the kitchen can too!...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  Did have time to read all this, just wanted to say Stay the way you are Caster Semenya, you're just perfect!...
• Commented on Incredible Star Wars collection display
  See? Already much better than Damien Hirst !...
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• Commented on HOW WE DECIDE: mind-blowing neuroscience of decision-making
  Oh no! Not the "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" guy! Really? Do people like COry Doctorow take him seriously? That's disheartening. I'd never heard of him before *that* book and hoped it was a one-off. Now I see that he's entwined...
• Commented on Tweet (#3811846707)
  I am also super confused by this post / link - I would try to search the sight a while more but that bird graphic is annoying....
• Commented on Upgrade Complete: game whose objective is to upgrade the game
  :-)...
• Commented on Upgrade Complete: game whose objective is to upgrade the game
  This is a very bad post for people playing "The Game". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28mind_game%29...
• Commented on Samoan motorists switch to driving on the left
  "On 3 September 1967, Frida (later of ABBA) won the Swedish national talent competition, "New Faces", arranged by record company EMI and held at Skansen, Stockholm. The song she chose to sing was "En Ledig Dag" ("A Day Off"). The...
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKAtxDWa2XE...
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  Just to say, Hirst's art isn't Modern. Please don't offend Modernism by sticking Hirst in there. Modernism ended in the 70s....
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  I am really sick of people assholes....
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  That was pleasant....
• Commented on Kindle Hacking: It's a "lovely little Linux box"
  I wish I was as smart as Jesse Vincent. Sigh....
• Commented on What Wikipedia's new flagged revisions system actually means
  "J'adore the Wikipedia! It is one of my favorite-ever human inventions. I read on Wired blogs (?) that there was going to be (October?) a new system where new text was going to be highlighted in Orange and slowly over...
• Commented on Smash-and-grab robbers clean out Apple store in 31 seconds
  I'm not sure, but I feel like all the Macs in the SF Apple store are at least locked with security cables. Those Macs just looked plugged in. That's pretty amazing....
• Commented on Mad Parisian mayors fight each other with road signs
  The headline is also confusing because neither man is a "Parisian Mayor". There is only one Mayor of Paris, the absolutely wonderful Bertrand Delanoë !...
• Commented on Profile of skeptical guru James Randi
  Steven Novella is great, very smart and straight-forward in his explanaitons. I used to really like the Skeptics Guide podcast too, but over the last year - it just seems so shrill. I really can't handle Rebecca Watson. If ever...