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• Commented on US Chamber of Commerce suing the Yes Men
  "Instead, they deliberately broke the law in order to further commercial interest in their books, movies, and other merchandise." I think the guy has a point. Most of the people in the industry of dissent are trying to make cold...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  Xeni writes: "As far as I can tell, all of the voices in this thread bashing this funny post are white males." I don't think you would necessarily know the color of the skin, or the sex of the people...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  The author writes: "When I first heard of this product a few years ago, I'll admit it made me laugh, even with me being a Muslim." Either the author is suggesting that Muslims in general have a sense of humor...
• Commented on Street vendor selling ID cards, Thailand: random road snapshot
  Nowadays, it's harder to get a press pass than it is to get a press. I think these Thai are doing us all a big favor, and I don't think buying a fake press pass should be considered as an...
• Commented on "Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a county fair escapes
  This is going to make it all the more difficult for other insane killers to have their day at the fair. One bad apple spoils the whole bunch....
• Commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  Though the body count was higher, much higher, this event was akin to the Patty Hearst kidnapping, or the Oklahoma City bombing. That is, a scheme planned and carried out by a small group of disgruntled early twenty something MEN,...
• Commented on Interview with John Marcotte, author of bill to ban divorce
  I fucking hate divorce. Destroyed my family both when my mother did it, and then again when my ex wife did it. Anybody know why women are generally the ones who file? Though divorce is sometimes warranted, it is hard...
• Commented on Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
  Michael D. Duvall is living proof that money and power are all that is needed to get a fat old white guy laid. After this pig, and the Joe Wilson comment, my visceral for dislike for Republicans is once again...
• Commented on Live Singularity-esque sf writing workshop in London tomorrow night
  There's virtually nothing I wouldn't give to be able to attend, no pun intended....
• Commented on Spider and Jeanne Robinson need help
  Ah, here it is: First Credit Union, Box 190 101-475 Trunk Road, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G...
• Commented on Spider and Jeanne Robinson need help
  Mailing address?...
• Commented on HOW WE DECIDE: mind-blowing neuroscience of decision-making
  I this book can be mentioned in the same breathe as Stumbling on Happiness, it is surely worth a read....
• Commented on Cocaine dealers hurt by recession
  I can't give it away on 7th avenue....
• Commented on Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
  @27 @29 People should be free to wear whatever they want, and there shouldn't be one standard for men, and another for women. If men are allowed to go topless, women should also have that right. I think the idea...
• Commented on Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
  The impulse to require a woman to cover her face is not much different from the impulse to require her to cover her breasts. That is, the bra and the burka have much in common....
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  @41 Yeah, REQUIRED is the operative word. This means that if you don't do it, you get thrown in jail for 6 months. I don't think this happens at a wedding, and I don't think it would happen even with...
• Commented on Brain cupcakes
  Horrid....
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  And I detest just as much those who are complicit in these injustices by scraping and bowing to power heedless of the lives it ruins. You think you own justice. You do not. It may currently serve the interests of...
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  @20--the submissive, blind, unquestioning defender of authority That's idiotic. There aren't any other people for whom ordinary citizens are required to stand up. In a free, supposedly democratic society, citizens, the ones who are supposed to have power, should not...
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  @3 You could see a night or two??? For yawning??? It's attitudes like this that perpetuate the American criminal-industrial complex. There is no justification for this. Clearly this judge has abused his power, and does not deserve to be on...
• Commented on Free parking costs a fortune
  #38 et al... I agree with basically everything you've written. New York is not a typical American city, and solutions need to be applicable to smaller cities. I have a car, and I don't have any problem owning one. I...
• Commented on Free parking costs a fortune
  @31 Parking is tangential to the whole idea of the automobile, and automobile "ownership" which, owing to unintended consequences, has been the most wasteful ideas man has ever concocted. Because in America, we've built everything to accommodate the ungainly scale...
• Commented on Dery and Lecter do Italy
  I'm not sure if there's any way to prove it decisively, but I've heard that Italians are the best lovers....
• Commented on Amsterdam: O'Reilly Factor vs. reality
  @32 I really don't have any answers at the moment as it all seems quite hopeless. We all like to think that there is or might be a solution, but it may be just as likely that there isn't one,...
• Commented on Amsterdam: O'Reilly Factor vs. reality
  Bill O'Reilly is the very dangerous drug of choice for vast legions of anti-progressive, intolerant, racist, obese, intellectually lazy Americans who need frequent doses of bullshit to maintain the integrity of their absurd world-view. That said, there is something entertaining,...
• Commented on PsiWheel Under a Glass Container video
  Being conned is the supreme duty of consciousness. Once you know, it's the end of the show. For this reason, illimitable intelligence cannot co-exist with consciousness. This is why God is in the atoms, and not on the mountain top....
• Commented on PsiWheel Under a Glass Container video
  The most convincing evidence there is of the paranormal are the realties of everyday-physics which even the most prominent scientists have no quarrel. That the bowl, and the pinwheel, and the consciousness of a mind trying to teach us a...
• Commented on High-ranking insurance PR flack defects, explains dirty tricks used to fight universal healthcare
  Americans are a sick bunch, especially when compared to their European counterparts. Lifespan is about 10% shorter, infant mortality is dramatically higher, and people are also physically shorter. Some of this is attributable to inadequate medical care, but the more...
• Commented on Chris Anderson on managing tech for abundance
  The assigning of anthropomorphic characteristics to an abstraction such as information, i.e., that it "wants to be free" really points at the human desire to be free. Of course there is a semantic difference between free, as in no cost...
• Commented on Fatal monorail collision at Walt Disney World
  Walt probably never envisioned that the monorail would aide in the future transport of souls as the spirit of the person killed didn't have to go far to reach paradise....