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Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
Menlo Bob, I don't think anyone suggested that people need to be "smart" to be involved. The key word is "educated". And that doesn't mean they need a degree or diploma; but rather information....
Commented on All of Mojo Nixon in free, legal MP3 -- US ONLY
Dammit. I also went through all the downloading rigamarole just to end up with with "Sorry, but you don't live in the right part of the universe" message. Cory, could you please update the post to include that warning, to...
Commented on IT Crowd comes back for a fourth season!
Perhaps "Denholm" could return as a long lost Evil Twin? Er... eviler twin? I love this show....
Commented on You and the Pirates
This snarky Canadian expat girl in Tokyo is also intrigued. And thinks that maybe the University of Alberta is trying to make CanLit a bit more enticing, as well: http://failblog.org/2009/09/11/classic-lit-fail/...
Commented on CIA's former bin Laden expert: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
To anyone who actually watches Glen Beck: Please let us know which companies' ads were playing at the time. I don't see any point in writing in to FoxNews, as the original link suggests. Surely they'd just see the mail...
Commented on It's the Internet, Stupid
And in breaking news, ... the Swede sitting next to me just whispered over that there shall be at least one Pirate in the EU Parliment!...
Commented on It's the Internet, Stupid
And in breaking news, ... the Swede sitting next to me just whispered over that there shall be at least one Pirate in the EU Parliment!...
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Threads like this leave me wondering how small the percentage of BB readers actually in the US is. (Taj in Tokyo)...
Commented on Treehouse restaurant
Damn the anonymous sign in! Thanks for the offer, David! That would be the icing on the matrimonial cake! ((Still waiting for reply to proposal. The anonymous sign in probably didn't help ...)...
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Commented on BB Video: United Nations Drug Policy- the Skeptics Chime In
We all know this. And we can all vote. Why is this still a problem? Is it that we are all afraid to call our representatives and give our names? I'm willing to forgo stuff for a year while we...
Commented on California measure to legalize and tax pot
If it's legalized = black market is eliminated = price & crime go down. If possession is decriminalized = black market thrives, selling to an easier market = prices remain high; sellers continue to mix in whatever nasty addictive stuff...
Commented on Japanese Graveyards
"In general, families have the choice of burning or burying their members." Are you sure about that, Danny? I'm pretty sure I've read that burying is not an option anywhere anymore. Even in places that have had a tradition of...
Commented on A contest: Undying love in ≤150 characters
Untitled 1...
Commented on American Institute of Physics' history of the science of climate change
To hell with the hockey stick curves. Cory! Charles! Off with the gloves! HOCKEY FIGHT!!!...
Commented on Gaiman wins the Newbery Award for The Graveyard Book!
Hurrah and Congratulations! The audiobook version is brilliant. Thank you Neil for writing and reading it and thank you Cory for the introduction....
Commented on HSBC's bizarre lumberjack ad
HSBC always has the best (most entertaining) ads. I don't think they're aiming at me, the the run of the mill Salary Girl. I don't know if they even do any retail banking here. The ads never flog banking services....
Commented on Palin hears rally attendee call Obama "n-word" during speech, keeps on truckin'.
Much as I dislike this woman, I'm not going to judge her based on this video. Just because the shouter was picked up by this recording doesn't mean that Palin would have heard her. There's enough condemning evidence coming straight...
Commented on Virtual "murderer" jailed
#17 Allen, Paypal money is realworld money. I think that's a big difference. And speaking of realworld money, as a tax-paying resident of Japan, I'm rolling my eyes and cursing the idiot whiner who went to the police because someone...
Commented on Naked man from Spain jumps into Japan's Imperial Palace moat
Contemporary sasumata: roughly US$50-100. (The lighter weight aluminum ones being the most costly). Available in a range of attractive colors. http://neji.web.infoseek.co.jp/sasumata.htm...
Commented on Naked man from Spain jumps into Japan's Imperial Palace moat
Wigwam Jones, I don't happen to know. (And I misspelled sasumata above with an extra "t" in the middle! Oops!) I'm guessing from the words that bo jutsu is simply "stick arts". The satsumata that the young officer on to...
Commented on Naked man from Spain jumps into Japan's Imperial Palace moat
What you can't see in the photo: 1)It's the naked Brit who's swinging the black and yellow pole. (with little loops on the end to fit over traffic cones, to cordon off areas). The police man on the right used...
Commented on Sink in a drawer
And on the other side of that wall??? Hopefully, another set of taps, so that the one sink can be used in either room. A sink next to the bed might be nice....
Commented on Woman sues city after it orders her to remove a link to the local cops' website
There must be more to the story. Was she listing website she supposedly designed or administered? (straight out fraud?) It's just too inconceivable otherwise....
Commented on Flaming arrows integral to oil pumping: 1960
#1 I have never worked in the oilfield but grew up in the middle of one. My first reaction to your question was also H2S - the nemesis of production. Will try to confirm with my brother who's an oilfield...
Commented on The history of urawaza in the Japan Times
Urazawa = great book. Thank you, Lisa. I do have one question though, regarding what is for me, the most critical tip in the book: preventing persperation discoloration in new white shirts. What exactly is "adhesive spray"? "nori"? What might...
Commented on German comic book art covers Tokyo
"Tokyo right now that has the city covered in giant comic book exclamations." Where? Where? Anywhere besides LaForet?...
Commented on Black q-tips
I keep both black and white cotton swabs on hand and choose which to use according to purpose. Blurring the eye-liner ==> white. Cleaning ears / belly button ==> black....

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rastronomicals commented on All of Mojo Nixon in free, legal MP3 -- US ONLY
Reminded of Mojo's ironic run for president--I guess it was '88, maybe '92--and the slogan he used, which was, "Put Another Nixon in the White House: Mojo Ain't No Dick."...
Cowicide commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
If as some here believe the highest form of democracy is reserved for only the smartest then come out and say it by denouncing voter drives for youth and slum dwellers. I don't know about you, Menio, but in my experience I've found plenty of intelligent people who are disadvantaged and live in poor areas. Some people happen to live in slums because of various misfortune, health issues and/or they were simply raised there. And, as for "youth", I've found many of them to be quite bright as well. I would never, ever denounce a voter drive anywhere... but.. ah.....
Roach McKrackin commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
This is different than Al Frankin how? I mean, besides the fact he's not a liberal......
yrogerg commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
You did actually miss the douchiest part of this particular douchery, which is the particular date in August Beck picked for that culminating Washinton rally: August 28th, better known as the anniversary of MLK's "I have a Dream" speech. He is, in fact, proposing appropriating for a tea-bagger-style rally, complete with paranoid militia-talking-point regurgitation and simmering, barely-concealed racism, a day that has hithertofore been known as the anniversary of one of the most influential and memorable civil rights events in American history And lest one be tempted to suppose that this might somehow be mere coincidence, Beck had previously proposed...
ROSSINDETROIT commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
I actually kind of like the idea of Lady Blahblah the former governor of a cold place soaking up a lot of media attention. She's a harmless dead end and the hours the MSM spend on her are lost to those like Cheney and Rove who could get on and do real mischief. Beck, on the other hand is an evil genius. He sees profit in chaos. It doesn't matter to him in which direction the mob charges off as long as he sold them the torches and pitchforks....

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