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• Commented on Zydepunks' "Finisterre" -- a CD that's like Flogging Molly crossed with the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band performed in zydeco time
  Long live The Zydepunks, Panorama and NOLA!...
• Commented on Why No Famous Scientists or Engineers?
  Perhaps it is also the decreasing lack of fascination with names and increasing importance placed on the accomplishment. Even the field of medicine has moved away from naming diseases and cures after people and towards describing the actual condition or...
• Commented on Why No Famous Scientists or Engineers?
  Noam Chomsky is not a scientist. James Thomson, whom you've probably never heard of, isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, is a scientist and is still alive and doing great work at UW-Madison. It has everything to do with...
• Commented on Absinthe Crazed Man Attacks Clemenceau
  We're very picky about our absinthe in New Orleans, so: a) Don't drink Lucid. Ick! and b) Never order an absinthe and cranberry like a girl recently did (here's the post in which my friend reported said atrocity). Then, we'll...
• Commented on Wails and Murmurs: Eating Couscous at the Chi-Chi's in Walla-Walla
  There are always Coco, Kiki, Mimi and Gaga....
• Commented on Wails and Murmurs: Eating Couscous at the Chi-Chi's in Walla-Walla
  Husband wants to name our kid Ervine Irving Erwin. It's not going to happen....
• Commented on Dave Hill's Chihuahua Dance
  Figure it out. It's not funny if she has to explain it!...
• Commented on Online Personal Narratives from Patients of Murdered Late-Term Abortion Provider
  I know a number of young women who have brought into this world children with fetal alcohol poisoning, legal- and illegal-drug damage, zero pre-natal care and other serious trauma. These kids are then left to wither and molder at the...
• Commented on Scouts training to fight immigrants and terrorists
  "what a Middle Eastern terrorist would be like" Have any of these douches even left their county, much less their country? How do they know what a Middle Eastern terrorist would be like? Many Arabs are very light-skinned (and don't...
• Commented on Stinkum from fridge full of putrid cow-orker chow causes AT&T office evac
  Whiners! Do you know how many of these we cleaned or hauled out for years after Katrina? No hazmat teams for us! Related: Check out the When Refrigerators Die Flickr pool I administer....
• Commented on Inventing American History
  "The Daughter Of Time" by Josephine Tey really made me think about what we take for granted from historians. Also, growing up in Kuwait and taught history by Indians and then moving to the States was a real eye-opener about...
• Commented on ACLU offers to represent politician who wants an ACLUSUX vanity license plate
  This year's ACLU membership paid for itself right here....
• Commented on Free pre-paid Cremation!
  Send this offer to Baba Davender Kumar Ghai in England. Free trumps open-air any day....
• Commented on Chief Army Chaplain in Afghanistan distributes local-language Bibles, orders congregation to convert locals
  Hunt for Jesus those who hunt for Allah! Yes, stop the proliferation of Islam by proselytizing for Jesus! The more we are different, the more we are the stupid....
• Commented on Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel
  The really sad side effect of this is that it promotes such stupidity in our otherwise sane neighbors, as Cory well knows....
• Commented on Trippy illusion
  Seems to not work on me. The normally-problematic horizontal nystagmus must thwart it....
• Commented on Oregon Passes Bill "Too Gross to Talk About"
  And this wonderful license plate I saw in Toronto!...
• Commented on Oregon Passes Bill "Too Gross to Talk About"
  It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. And then it's sport....
• Commented on The Dark Side of Dubai
  Having lived in the Middle East for 15 years, I can safely say that Kuwait City, Dubai and many of the richer Arab cities are nothing but Disneyland with the death penalty, as William Gibson dubbed Singapore. Modern on the...
• Commented on The delightful Mardi Gras King Cake
  Yay, king cake discussion on BoingBoing! The best king cake I've tasted to date comes from Cake Cafe on Chartres St. in the Marigny. Many companies (including Gambino's), when shipping within New Orleans or out, do not put the baby...
• Commented on Idiotic British tourists acting like jerks in Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market
  When Japanese tourists stop having their pictures taken before the World Trade Center site while flashing big smiles and peace signs, we'll consider it even. Not a jingoist or supporter of oft-crass western manners, but assholes come in all nationalities....