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• Commented on Wikileaks publishes massive archive of private 9/11 pager messages
  too painful to even consider...
• Commented on Matt Logue's "Empty Los Angeles" photography book
  I've lived in LA on and off since 1990 and once in a while, while riding around on my motorcycle, the streets are so empty Morrissey's "Everyday is like Sunday" comes back to me. It can look like a ghost...
• Commented on Invasive Slugs Run Amok in Canada (Relatively Speaking)
  FYI, they are delicious. Treat them like Escargot: Butter, Garlic and Parsley or Cantonese-style: Black Bean and Garlic...etc....
• Commented on Good 80s postpunk music from The Men with No IQ's
  Dig it. So many good times to mine from the past. Internets' long tail rocks. Literally....
• Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
  Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that we would ever be homogeneous, I realize that within relatively homogeneous nations there's still classism, colorism, ageism, etc. I'm sure someone here could make the argument that it's "human nature" or something. But...
• Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
  Think what a peculiar time we live in, where people are still seemingly distinct. How long will that last? A few hundred more years? I'm calling it here: the future of the world will be something like filipinos...dark skinned asiatics...
• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  wow. amazing. I think the majority who attempt to cross the border though the desert are mostly those without means or connections...think women and children. It's extremely treacherous, and many do die attempting it. It's no wonder religious and humanitarian...
• Commented on Animation: pitcher Dock Ellis's no-hitter while on LSD
  Awesome. Just Awesome. Best thing I've seen in a while. Thanks....
• Commented on "Sixth Sense Technology" Will Be Open Source
  That's it...I'm finally giving up my motorcycle. Can you imagine how dangerous the streets will be when all the d-bags out there start using this tech while driving?...
• Commented on Thinking off
  Do you think women perhaps evolved this ability to compensate for their lame partners?...
• Commented on EFF to represent Yes Men in Chamber of Commerce lawsuit
  Trademark infringement? Don't those trademarks belong to...us?...
• Commented on Eye exercise may boost creativity
  Try splitting lanes everyday. By the weekend I am a genius!...
• Commented on Slow loris: possibly cutest animal ever
  Cute goes a long way in keeping one off a dinner plate....
• Commented on Americans watch about 5 hours of TV every day.
  I don't own a TV so I must average out the person who watches 24 hrs a day! Actually, I do know places where the TV is on 24/7...amazing. Quite telling that statistic, actually...5 hours a day, and we don't...
• Commented on Courage (and training) defined.
  Now that's training. Instinct would have most of us cowering for cover......
• Commented on Nouveau Oldtime Jam: Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank Fairfield
  Luv it! btw, not to be a stickler but that's in West LA, not Santa Monica. :-)...
• Commented on Age of the Informavore
  This is so true. I notice it everyday. Half my brain is on the internet. People don't make firm plans anymore, just loose agreements to be closeby at sometime-ish and rely on cellphones to find each other. This behavior probably...
• Commented on What Role Should GM Food Play in the Future of Agriculture?
  Famine is caused by problems of distribution, not production, as many would have you believe. Amartya Sen won a Nobel prize for his work on this. There are several problems with GMO (or rather, transgenic modification) as I see it....
• Commented on How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine
  Not exactly what I would call a killing machine... You could also use such a car for say...bird watching or catching cheating spouses. The choice, as they say, is yours....
• Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
  Quick!...Somebody...We need a vaccine for Stupidity! Oh, wait... Shucks....
• Commented on Silent film re-edit of so-called "drunkest guy ever" surveillance video
  you shoulda seen him drive away......
• Commented on How To Eat a Horse
  Is the US still the leading producer of horse meat? I always thought it ironic, since its sale and consumption are banned in many states....
• Commented on Investment banks borrow money from gov't at 0%, lend it back to them at 3%
  @ benher, well, Gore Vidal doesn't call us the United States of Amnesia, for nuthin...! I think the truth is...that too many of us, conservative or not, hippie or not, caring or not, has too much invested in the status...
• Commented on Investment banks borrow money from gov't at 0%, lend it back to them at 3%
  @LRM, Awesome. I'll get the word out!...
• Commented on Yes Men pwn Chamber of Commerce over climate change legislation
  Yes Men rule....
• Commented on Investment banks borrow money from gov't at 0%, lend it back to them at 3%
  This kind of stuff has been going on forever. Some call it "arbitrage." What's really outrageous to me is the_lack_of outrage among Americans at all this stuff....
• Commented on Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn
  Truly disappointing....
• Commented on Parish leader denies marriage license to interracial couple
  What is it about these small parishes in Louisiana? Did this guy just wake up from a 50 year coma? Do they have TV? Oh, I know...I bet that this guy Bardwell himself is of "mixed" blood....
• Commented on Sawfish: mining the forgotten forests of the sea
  They've been "mining" underwater trees forever. Pre-Revolutionary War Dutch farmhouses in the NYC area have roof shingles from cedar that were mined from swamps in New Jersey. They're still in use, some 300 years on......
• Commented on What actual Mayans are saying about 2012
  I think one can argue that the apocalypse has already come for the Mayans. And maybe for us too....