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Mar 22 brent.b commented on The Message on Aurora.

Come on, the guy from Surf Shop was not comparing people to infested food. That is intellectually lazy. In his analogy people/prostitutes = food trucks. Like food trucks, prostitutes are fine, but that doesn't mean you want them in front of your business when they are a public health concern. The analogy seems to be simply making the point that he isn't anti-prostitute. Using an analogy involving food trucks is not the same thing as comparing to food trucks.

Jul 18, 2012 brent.b commented on Bane Is the Bane of Bain.

It must have been a liberal conspiracy that resulted in Romney working for a company, the name of which is a homophone for a word that means: "1) A cause of great distress or annoyance; or 2) Something, typically poison, that causes death." The name of the character Bane is obviously a result of those definitions, the "coincedence" is that Bain Capital is pronounced the same as a word meaning the source of great distress, annoyance, or death...

Jul 11, 2012 brent.b commented on Last Days.

Ummm, reservations. We aren't allowed to play with good fireworks either, technically.

Jul 10, 2012 brent.b commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.

Did anyone else notice how he says that his marriage was not muddled by lust, but that his wife is straight? What kind of weird statement is that? Only male sexuality is relevant? Women don't/shouldn't lust? Or does she just find him physically revolting?

Jun 6, 2012 brent.b commented on Beating Back Amazon.

Perhaps this says something about Amazon as a company as well? Maybe they aren't good enough to do all this on their own, but they are better than the big companies that entrench instead of changing in the face of pressure.

May 30, 2012 brent.b commented on O They Will Know We Are Christians....

@ 5 / ohthetrees : There is a ton of daylight between a little hyperbole and someone who is honest to goodness advocating mass-killing. This pastor is full on advocating violence. Nowhere that I am aware of did Goldy actually put together a serious argument for something like genocide.

May 30, 2012 brent.b commented on Ground Zero.

Not even that they are supporting gay marriage or abortion or anything, but that they are focusing on poverty and helping people while refraining from judging other people or dictating their morals. Its funny, I think they may have been a famous historical Christian figure that espoused something like that...?

Apr 23, 2012 brent.b commented on Eli Sanders Wins a Pulitzer Prize.

@ 13/14/blog1919, Easy there...and really, you are accusing Hopper of gaining from the loss? If she can raise awareness isn't that the best possible outcome of a horrible situation? Certianly it isn't for you to decide it would be better to stop talking about it. And it is a little crazy to suggest that the Stranger wouldn't report on that story when it was current or mention its Pulitzer. And they used the opportunity to mention the good works Hopper is currently doing to raise awareness. It is hard to imagine the situation having been handled more sensitively, and it seems crazy to criticize when she is just raising awareness. At least have the humility to realize Ms. Hopper probably knows better than you how Ms. Butz would like her story to be used.

Apr 23, 2012 brent.b commented on I, Anonymous.

@ Brandon J, Actually, he made a good point contrary to your post. He pointed out that since his money will earn capital gains and interest, and since he has no "imcome", the IRS will take very little of his money from him. Less than they take from someone with an "average" income. They won't be fighting over "half of everything he owns" anytime soon, that is just crazy talk.