I was immediately reminded of the Two Headed
Boy of Bengal. His parents were offered lots
of money for his skull when he died but didn't
want to desecrate his body.

Some lovely fellow from the British
East India Company decided to rob his grave and
help himself to his skull anyway. It is now
displayed in a museum in England.

Wow, people who drink it on the rocks are high
maintenance. All I need is a clean glass.

So if this cop had seen my parents buy me a
grasshopper drink when I was 8 I could have
gone to live with a nice foster family?

The guy filming is really a dink.

I'd give him one warning to get away or prepare
to fight if he did that to me. I'd be badly tempted
to just pop him without a warning, but I believe in
giving people a chance.

Oh, man, this gives me ideas. You could make your
own ergonomic mouse out of wood.

If his camera's memory card was formatted as
fat32 he most likely would have been able to
undelete the pictures the cop made him delete.

Just say: "I'd love to obey your sign, Mr.
Xenophobic businessman, but I can't understand
Engrish!"

Caves aren't known for being well-ventilated.

I wonder why they crapped inside.

The $500 price of this camera would buy
me a lot of naked pictures of people who are
good at posing for naked pictures.

I'd still like an ir and uv sensitive camera
to photograph things like nocturnal wildlife
and flowers.

I don't mind this EULA so much if it's token
and not sincerely enforced.

eiconoclast , if it were illegal for me to be on
the road how would I get to work? It's dangerous
to ride on sidewalks because people aren't looking
for fast moving wheeled vehicles there, and there
aren't bicycle paths all the way from my home
to my office.

I just wouldn't feel right about the pollution
I would make with a car when I am able-bodied
and capable of transporting myself under my
own power.

Forget about the bus. I'm not spending 1.5 hours
a day to go 6 miles, and I want to go wherever
I want on my own schedule.

Damp books would be a perfect habitat for silverfish
and other moisture and cellulose loving creatures.

I might like it for a place to put bathroom
knicknacks, like the jars of colored soap balls
you don't actually use.

I think that's actually the reticulum, the part
of their digestive system that follows the rumen.

The cop-like guys are more annoying than
the people hanging out.

So, the state of California has given bar workers
a smoke free work environment, and a few bar owners
have found a way to take that away from them?

Yeah, TECUMSEH, children in poor countries
should only have practical things like education
and health care. Something fun like a skate park
isn't appropriate for them.

What, only one Taser killing defender
here?

Thanks for sharing, SLODO.

I'm just waiting for the rumor that hijackers are
planning on using their shoelaces to strangle
the flight crew of an airplane.

So the guy wastes a sheet of paper for every email?
That's ridiculous.
He should try an IBM Model M keyboard.

It looks like the thing is stuck on the window
with adhesive residue. I'd be pretty mad about
having to clean that off my window.

I can make my own decisions about whether I'm
comfortable leaving visible packages in my car,
thanks.

My guess the Carmel Roll is in honor of
Clint Eastwood.

I really hope it's fake. Thinking it might be
fake won't make me able to watch it without
dry heaving, though.

It kind of reminded me of the show Fear Factor.
Cn y drnk th cckrch smth wtht
rtchng? Can you watch 2 girls 1 cup without
getting sick?

These mascots are great. It's hard to be
cute without being cloyingly cute.

It's hard to believe that some people
are complaining about them.

I'm wondering how much it cost him to get back
his $50-$80 bag of stale marijuana.

It's a good precedent, though.

"once he started to walk away, tasering him was a final act of self-defense."

Uh, thanks, I needed a good laugh, Scoutmaster.

How can they criticize torture? Don't they
love America?

I'm with you, Kevitivity.

I think this would encourage stupid people in cars
to scream or throw things.

Posting the video was good because it made it
possible to see several key points:

1. The man was directing his frustration toward
inanimate objects and not toward other people in
the area. He broke stuff but he didn't try to
hurt anybody.

2. He backed away as the officers approached
him.

3. The police used the Taser as a first, and
not last, resort.

Unfortunately, they are probably going to
get away with killing that man.

When Tasers were first developed they were
promoted as an alternative to deadly force
when used against combative suspects, but
they're increasingly used as a 'compliance
tool' to punish people for not obeying the
police. So how could a reasonable person not
take a "cynical side against the police" for
using a taser on someone who isn't actively
violent?

I hope the victim in this case sues and wins.

Now what would be fun would be to swap the cables
to connect a keyboard and monitor on the filtered
side to a computer on the unfiltered side.

Who let the trolls out?

I'm not really interested in the university
they are founding, nor am I interested in
slamming any kind of religion or meditation.

Break time over. Back to work.

If I recall correctly, some of the off-duty
cops on copswritingcops.com were annoyed that the cops who were ticketing them took a long time to write the ticket.

Now that would be a story- Off-duty cop shoots/tasers fellow officer for being too
slow writing the ticket.

It really is annoying that they take a long time
to write a ticket, but I don't mind. People who
manage their time poorly have no right to endanger
others by driving to fast.

The ice cream with ramen does look gross, because
of the hard boiled eggs and meaty looking broth.

I'd eat it on a dare, for at least $10.

Musicman, are you paying rent? If so, then
you have a right to eat what you want. Kimchi
is just vegetables. Your flatmates are being
unreasonable. Tell them they will just have
to learn to deal with it.

This has to be social commentary. Surely no one
would be expected to actually use such a disguise.

Would the album have fit on an iPod, on a hard
drive installed in a laptop, or even on a
usb stick?

That might be a less problematic way of
carrying it across the border.

Thinking about it further, why does a
physical drive need to be moved at all?

Couldn't the files containing the album
have just been "transported" by ftp?

Was the guy who was arrested for standing
around black?

Cigarette smoking is an addiction.
The majority of smokers are people who want
to quit but can't.

I don't know anyone addicted to the sound
of jackhammers.

How did I know that this post would bring out
the trolls?

I like the idea of providing water for people
crossing the desert, but the first thought
that crosses my mind is that a permanent
structure like this would be too easy for
the Minutemen or some other xenophobic
yahoos to ambush.

All the Mexican people I've worked with are
really hard and diligent workers. I don't
care how they got here. Their employers are
better off for having them. They help American
businesses to do better and they contribute
to our economy. And a lot of Mexican people
are employers!

In a bar I figure it's more unsanitary to touch
the bathroom faucet handles than to not wash
after I go to the bathroom. I never wash my
hands in a bar.

What about the lever you have to pull to
get the paper towels in some bathrooms?
Am I the only one who wonders whether the
person who touched the thing before me
might have had the toilet paper tear
and got some crap on his fingers?
I hate those things. Tri-fold towels are
better. You only have to touch the paper
towel that you use.

When I volunteered at a food coop people who
obviously didn't cook would come in and buy
certain kinds of dried mushrooms to resell
as fake psychedelic mushrooms. I always
liked to ask those guys how they planned
on cooking them.

I had one disappointing and one great
experience with them, but I'm hesitant
to buy them again because I'd have no
guarantee that they are authentic.

It would be better to buy them from a
legal, above ground business.

I'm sure the new legislation will stop people
from doing stupid things under the influence
of mood altering substances.

This is why I stick with under $10 table
wines.

I like the bulldozer. There should be an adult
version for holding a pile of peas still to
help get them onto a spoon or fork.

They probably got the idea from the Scooby Doo
show.

What a waste of money. It's just a building with 8
sections, arranged to form 4 courtyards open at one
end. If people think it looks like a swastika from
the air, people shouldn't look at aerial photos of
it.

Besides, the swastika has existed in many cultures
centuries before the Nazi party adopted it. If it
were a heavy black swastika inside a white circle
inside a red rectangle, then I'd be concerned.

It's really annoying when people construe things
like this as anti-Semitic when that is obviously
not the intention. I can think of a lot better
uses for $600,000.

I don't think I'll ever read about someone in
America apologizing and being released after pepper
spraying a cop.