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fletc3her commented on Fast & Furious 6: Justin Lin's Automotive Ballet Careens to an Explosive Conclusion.

In 2003, 2 Fast 2 Furious made $20 mil more than The Italian Job, so iit's totally true. A multi-cultural cast increases your take by 20%. Science!

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fletc3her commented on Governor Inslee Officially Declares State of Emergency in Skagit, Snohomish, and Whatcom Counties.

@3 Yeah and I could empty that leaking radioactive waste container at Hanford with nothing more than a big corkscrew.

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fletc3her commented on Everything Wrong with Television, in One Handy Chart.

Broadcast television increasingly seems like an anachronism to me, like radio.

Kudos to Netflix for doing television right. Looking forward to watching the entirety of the new Arrested Development season at my own pace in a couple days.

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fletc3her commented on Kelly O Gets Down with the Clown.

I've never been able to convince myself that this is a real band.

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fletc3her commented on Pushing Rope.

I thought Zach Galifanakis' whole shtick was that he has no self worth.

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fletc3her commented on China Approves 220-Story, 4,450-Apartment Pinnacle of Density.

Aeropolis, a tower city thousands of feet tall whose citizens commuter vertically, by elevator, through the clouds. - Finitribe

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fletc3her commented on New California Law Could Prohibit Protesters From Riding Public Transit.

I recall Westlake Center here wouldn't allow protestors carrying anti-war signs to walk through the mall to the monorail. If carrying a sign or wearing a t-shirt is equated to protesting then it might be hard to get to your protest location without exposing any of your dangerous messages to unwary commuters.

7:54 AM

fletc3her commented on Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Members.

@32 Camp Fire, the YMCA, and countless other groups do provide many of the same opportunities as the Boy Scouts to both boys and girls. In a camping situation individual cabins or tents will generally be segregated by gender, but otherwise most activities can be enjoyed by boys and girls.

However, I do think some programs aimed at only boys or only girls can play a useful role. Most children get plenty of opportunities to interact with mixed gender groups at school or in their family. Having an opportunity to interact with an all boy or all girl group can allow different experiences.

7:40 AM

fletc3her commented on An I-5 Bridge Over the Skagit River Has Collapsed.

One thing I found amusing is that within an hour of the accident almost every major news site listed the story as breaking news. ABC,BBC, CBS, NBC, Fox, even HuffPost.

But, ol' CNN held onto the Trayvon Martin story and relegated the bridge collapse to a tiny link. No breaking news. No photo. They've corrected the situation this morning, but it was rather sad to see such a major story take a backseat to their scandalmongering.

9:22 PM yesterday

fletc3her commented on An I-5 Bridge Over the Skagit River Has Collapsed.

I think the notion of "crumbling infrastructure" is that we are not replacing structures when they are still within their operational lifetime, but are instead waiting until the last possible moment to do anything.

It's certainly probably that a heavy truck making contact with the bridge precipitated its collapse. However, would a newer bridge have collapsed under the same circumstances? Would a bridge with proper shoulders even have been in danger?

We may find it was a criminally heavy load and the driver collided with the bridge in just the right way to bring it down. Maybe any bridge would have collapsed under these circumstances. But, I find it hard to believe the age and condition of the bridge didn't play a part.