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• Commented on Taste Test: Raw eggs
  Somehow raw eggs still don't appeal to me, unless they're part of raw cookie dough......
• Commented on Oregon Attorney General releases "copyrighted" Public Meeting Manual, will hold hearings on whether Oregon law is copyrighted
  perturbed, I think you're missing the issue. Copyrights are not natural rights, they exist because they serve a purpose -- to encourage people to make stuff by allowing them to profit from their work. But this is the government; they...
• Commented on Lutheran Halal cafe
  I was always amused by the shop in Dearborn that advertises Halal Amish Chicken....
• Commented on Neuroscience of gambling
  Yeah I think gambling is really a form of psychosis -- generally a mild form -- but to say that studying gamblers tells us something about how the average person behaves is really rather silly....
• Commented on Free Lodgings at McDonald's
  Colleges usually have a lot of people sleeping in public....
• Commented on Clown at airport made to remove costume, hand over toy handcuffs
  Ummmm I know a lot of clowns (really) and none of them would even try to board a plane "in face" ......
• Commented on Torture in video-games -- a moral dilemma
  Who's to say you're supposed to be rewarded for doing the right thing, or punished for doing evil? That's not how it works in the real world. And, with the new expansion (which IS considerably darker than the previous ones),...
• Commented on Apartments Designed to Challenge Residents
  My dirty laundry sitting on the floor and the cable going from my DSL modem to the phone hookup in the kitchen are enough of a challenge for me, thanks....
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  I keep seeing this snippet with no further explanation appearing everywhere... I don't even know what it would mean, any mentions of what she, particularly, wanted banned, or even that she actually wanted any banned at all. Also, she was...
• Commented on Newlyweds tasered and arrested twice in 48 hours
  Uh, the West coast of Michigan is hardly impoverished. Especially not this area. Sheesh. How many people have you met that actually LIVE there, as opposed to "have a house"?...
• Commented on Newlyweds tasered and arrested twice in 48 hours
  GOOD. Rich bastards from Chicago think they can come into an impoverished state and do whatever the hell they want because they have cash to throw around. I'd taser them a third time....
• Commented on Ancient Roman D20 for sale, $18,000
  I wonder if the die was perhaps used for divination of some kind. Either gambling or divination, and if you spend much time in a casino, you'll see that there's really very little difference between the two....
• Commented on Surveillance sign's Freudian slip
  Pretty much all the signs on that website are an example of people who think quotation marks are for emphasis. That's what makes them funny to people who read things in quotes sarcastically....
• Commented on BB reader: "Two FBI agents just showed up at my door for taking photos in the Port of Los Angeles"
  That's how it usually goes; private individuals who think they're Protecting The World from Terrorism are always scarier than the actual FBI agents, who are usually pretty reasonable. I was just thinking about my old German prof before I read...
• Commented on Kids scare each other by impersonating online pedophiles
  I can so see kids doing this, too. So now it goes "The internet: where the men are men, the women are men, the children are FBI agents, and the pedophiles are children"...
• Commented on McCain and conspiracy theorists agree that Washington is Satanic
  Is there any real reason to read McCain's comments "ZOMG SATANIC PENTANGRAMS AND STUFF" rather than, you know, just generically saying "national politics is kind of evil, albeit a necessary evil" -- which is kind of the idea of liberal...
• Commented on The pleasures and perils of chasing book thieves
  A lot of people will steal "Satanic" books to "protect" other people from reading them....
• Commented on Obsolete skills
  THAC0 will never be obsolete!...
• Commented on What do old people look like?
  this is why people develop sarcasm, to deal with people who think it's cute to ask stupid questions like this....
• Commented on Bowed Piano Ensemble
  If you watch Ben Folds (particularly Ben Folds Five Sessions at West 54th) he does a lot of odd things with his piano, including playing it rather like a harp and, at one point, running a microphone across the strings....
• Commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2011
  I was a victim of a ton of these, in the CLASS OF 2000 (you have to say that in a science-fiction voice, similar to Conan O'Brien's IN THE YEAR 2000, for full effect) and nearly all of the most-repeated...
• Commented on More US Warcraft players than farmers
  Ever hear of RP servers? Plenty of WoW players actually are doing something creative. It's not high art, but it beats drinking lite beer and gambling. Sure, you could always be writing the Great American Novel or something, but as...