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• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  LOL!! Anytime... I posted an email addy above if you'd care to continue. And I have to half-agree with the sentiment on experience not equating 100% to authority. Half. I went to Amazon (US) to buy his book and read...
• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  @#33... Where are you? I can help. Here you go ~ boingboingistheshiz@mad.scientist.com Give me a general area (as specific as you feel comfortable with) and I can offer you contact information to get you started. All others ~ Feel free...
• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  Wait... You wrote and published a book entitled "...The Straight Scoop on Freemasons..." and you're not one? Isn't that a little cheaty? Shouldn't it have been titled something more along the lines of "...The Straight Scoop on Freemasons and Every...
• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  Sorry ~ Too much wind. No kayaking today... @PS#30 ~ Sorry if I sounded snippy in my last post - It's a busy, busy day and I obviously didn't proofread outside my own head. It was not intended as an...
• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  Breakfast is over... Homemade egg mcmuffins. = ) (I use hard salami instead of 'Canadian' bacon) Now, in regard to the 'creating [the] us and them schism' comment, I can only assume that by 'schism' you really mean 'difference.' It's...
• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  @Pixleshifter 1) You have an excellent point, even if you made it in a seemingly passive/aggressive statement. Seemingly what you wrote could have just as easily read "I am smart; I do not believe in God, therefore people that believe...
• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  Oh, and spot on with the summation, Goldwag. I have to agree that it's nice to see someone writing something in an intelligent manner rather than for the sake of the wave that happens to be passing... I feel strangely...
• Commented on Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
  It used to annoy the shite out of me to read what non-Masons had written about Freemasonry. Kind of like it used to annoy my sister when her (ex) husband would talk about women as though he had any effing...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  @55 ~ None of the Bush clan are Masons. Shrub (the younger offender) is a 'Bonesman' or member of Skull and Bones; a Yale-specific fraternity based on the 'Right of Privilege'. President Obama is also not a member, though that...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  @37... http://www.venganza.org/...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  @33... Sorry. I meant @32... XD...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  @33... The fact that you don't meet the requirements to be in the fraternity doesn't mean that you're 'unacceptable' to Masons; you're just not a Mason. The Craft is based on a belief in and a focus on a supreme...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  @#14. RWY ~ Spot on, Brother....
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  Oh Mark... I do enjoy reading what you've written, but "95% of Masons are senior citizens."? LOL! While I do agree that you'll find your share of the elderly in Freemasonry, the median age is trending downward, sharply. I currently...
• Commented on The "Whatever" Economy
  Wonderful. = )...
• Commented on Iran: The White House is Tweeting in Farsi
  Wonderful. = )...
• Commented on Schneier: Fix US airport security by making TSA more transparent
  Not wonderful....
• Commented on Boody Rogers: vintage comic is first-brewed weirdtea, Mark was right!
  I bought it the first time it was Boinged, several months ago, and have chewed through it several times... I have to say, even for my personal flavor of dementia, the final piece in the book, where the girl is...
• Commented on School newspaper archives go online, embarrassing student writing and shenanigans become permanent record
  Yes, the industrial revolution ruined all of our lives. Except for that whole "I can afford clothes and books" thing, it was a complete failure. Oh, and glass. I prefer it to, say, animal horn or moldy leather for use...
• Commented on Montreal cop cuffs, busts and fines student $450 for not holding escalator rail in subway
  @#3 YEAH!! Those dang French! If they hadn't bailed us out of the American Revolution, thereby guaranteeing my right to mock them, I'd have no use for them at all!!...
• Commented on Montreal cop cuffs, busts and fines student $450 for not holding escalator rail in subway
  This smacks of "Not enough information" on the part of BB. I have a sneaking suspicion that there was more exchanged than the 10 or so words offered....
• Commented on Uglified theft-resistant camera
  Wow. . . I thought I was being way paranoid for carrying my wallet in my front pocket. Man, I hope I never go 'overseas'. . . Wherever that scary place may be. It sounds like the 'terrorists' won this...
• Commented on Long-exposure photo of Roomba coverage
  This is very possibly the most wonderful thing in the world. . ....
• Commented on Woman kills elephant with bow & arrow
  I'll bet you can't be the first woman to shoot herself in the face with a bow, sweetie. Hey, best of luck with that!...
• Commented on Photos from abandoned clothing factory
  Luckily, nobody in this country needs clothes, or this would have been a real waste. . . Oh, wait. . ....
• Commented on Viacom uses copyright to censor racism protest
  Kieran @#3 hit it right on the button. I don't care if they put Forest Whitaker in the role, as long as he does a good job of convincing me that he is the fictitious character that I came to...
• Favorited Beware the clomping of the candy-fueled Chicken Walker on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on Mario takes the Metropolis
  This is brilliant! = )...
• Commented on Ankle weights save tippy strollers from forgetful parents (like me)
  Beats the hell out of shifting your priorities and remembering not to let the kid fall. I really couldn't see the point of buying an extra bag so I just used a hiking pack and put the changing pad (a...
• Commented on Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: King Kong (1968)
  "We're sorry, this video is no longer available" Damn. That was quick. . ....