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These are the most commented-upon blog posts as of 11/21/2008 1:28pm, ordered by number of comments. Only posts with 25 or more comments are shown here. Some posts are still active, so these numbers could change.

Comments Title Date Active? Author
282 SpongeBob, Barney want to make your children gay 1/21/2005   Ryland
235 Let Me See If I've Got This Straight 5/7/2004   Matt
228 Congratulations, South Dakota 3/7/2006   Ryland
209 The professionals weigh in 6/16/2006   Ryland
203 "I am not a racist, but a realist." 6/5/2007   Ryland
193 Striking a blow for Christmas! 12/9/2005   Ryland
192 Open Topic 1/27/2005   Ryland
185 Thou shalt not preach from the bench 12/16/2004   Ryland
160 Open Topic 9/29/2004   Ryland
154 "This is strike three." 7/1/2006   Ryland
150 I can't stand it. 11/20/2003   Ryland
147 Position Statement, re: Christianity 1/7/2005   Ryland
139 The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair 1/27/2007   Ryland
131 Tie a yellow ribbon around your eyes... 5/10/2005   E_B_A
122 Socialists! Booga booga! 5/31/2005   Ryland
120 The Homosexual "Lifestyle" 3/16/2005   Ryland
119 Things that offend me 8/14/2004   Ryland
117 Billions and billions of idiots 9/22/2004   Ryland
113 The Order of the Hidden Path 10/31/2004   Ryland
109 Of Swift Boats and Purple Hearts 8/24/2004   Ryland
108 Judge rules evolution stickers in textbooks unconstitutional 1/13/2005   Ryland
106 Brand Democrat 11/20/2004   Ryland
103 Smaller government, my ass 3/23/2005   Ryland
99 Election Aftermath 11/5/2004   Ryland
99 Health Workers' Choice Debated 1/31/2006   Ryland
96 Made with real Girl Scouts 3/5/2004   Ryland
96 Bring It On! 4/21/2006   Mermaid
93 Calling all Christians 4/14/2004   Ryland
92 More red state mail 11/12/2004   Ryland
91 Where does it end? 4/14/2005   Ryland
88 An Inconvenient Truth Banned! 1/12/2007   Mermaid
85 Conscience 6/14/2004   Ryland
80 Fox News Reporter gets 0wn3d 1/20/2005   Ryland
80 Happy 4th of July, America 7/4/2006   Ryland
79 9/11 is NOT a joke... 7/5/2004   E_B_A
79 What now? 11/7/2006   Otto Yamamoto
78 Why Do Atheists Care About Religion? 10/8/2006   Mermaid
77 Top 10 Things To Yell Out During DOOM, The Movie 10/20/2005   Ryland
74 Off Radar. 10/18/2006   Otto Yamamoto
73 New Orleans 9/2/2005   Ryland
71 The Tyranny of the Minority 1/18/2006   Ryland
70 God's Senator 3/15/2006   Ryland
68 Meet the new scandal, same as the old scandal 2/10/2005   Ryland
67 Reader voices strong opinion on atheists 2/19/2007   Ryland
67 10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted 2/7/2008   Ryland
66 "Imminent" vs. "grave and gathering" 1/28/2004   Ryland
66 Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative 9/30/2004   Ryland
65 Gayness cancels out transubstantiation? 5/31/2004   Ryland
65 Conservative Meltdown, Part II: Ann Coulter 2/2/2005   Sir Craig
63 FOX News' demographic 2/22/2005   Ryland
62 Things just suck sometimes... 12/2/2004   E_B_A
60 The American Taliban Wants YOU, Pre-Pregnant Women! 6/3/2006   Mermaid
59 Letters, I get letters 2/25/2005   Ryland
59 Did the Devil Make Him Do It? 4/19/2007   Ryland
58 Outrage Overload 10/12/2004   Ryland
58 Freedom 9/19/2005   Otto Yamamoto
58 The All Night Images 2/7/2006   Otto Yamamoto
58 Illinois General Assembly set to vote on bill to impeach Bush 4/25/2006   Ryland
58 Memphis church building Christian Statue of Liberty 7/3/2006   Ryland
58 This just in, someone said "Coddle." 10/1/2006   E_B_A
57 Compulsory Patriotism 3/5/2005   Sir Craig
56 Fascism? Me? 12/21/2003   Ryland
56 Fundamentalists engaging in internet disinformation campaigns 3/27/2006   Ryland
55 Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare! 3/28/2007   Ryland
54 Throwing Consumers To the Wolves 3/11/2006   Otto Yamamoto
53 People and things that piss me off to no end 1/15/2004   Ryland
53 Picture Auth testing 3/1/2007   Ryland
52 Announcing the Apple iProduct 1/11/2005   Ryland
51 Patriotism: Bush II vs. Clinton 8/4/2004   E_B_A
51 Santorum Godwins Congress 5/20/2005   Ryland
50 Republican double-think 9/12/2005   Ryland
50 A Public Service Message 6/17/2006   Otto Yamamoto
50 Buh-bye, Jerry (updated) 5/15/2007   Ryland
48 Another Reason I've Never Shopped At Walmart 12/13/2006   Mermaid
47 Rumsfeld called on Iraq "immediate threat" lie 3/17/2004   Ryland
47 Westboro Baptist Church vs. Fox News 4/22/2006   Ryland
47 Hi, Racists! 4/29/2006   Ryland
47 Sunday School Teacher Fired Because...She's a Woman 8/21/2006   Sir Craig
46 Presidential 10/28/2004   Ryland
46 Bush sets up domestic spy service 6/23/2006   Ryland
46 I went to the Creation Museum and all I got was stupider 6/12/2007   Ryland
45 American Conservative Magazine endorses... John Kerry? 10/25/2004   Ryland
45 More Republican insanity 4/21/2005   Ryland
45 Their Own Version of a Big Bang 2/12/2006   Ryland
45 Rush To The Bottom 8/15/2006   Otto Yamamoto
44 God Hates Shrimp (dot com) 2/26/2004   Ryland
44 Harry Potter and the Impulsive Consumer 1/21/2005   Ryland
43 You just can't make stuff like this up 2/8/2006   Ryland
43 These People Want To Scare Us 9/9/2006   Ryland
42 Congrats on your new PM, Canada! 1/24/2006   Ryland
42 It's Podcast Time Again! 3/1/2006   DannyGo
42 Guilt 6/20/2006   Ryland
42 What is waterboarding? 9/29/2006   Ryland
42 Abstain all ye sinners! 10/31/2006   redraven
41 Checkpoint 1/19/2005   Ryland
41 Chickenhawk Squawk 8/18/2005   Ryland
41 An ABAHC Podcast? Well, maybe. What do you think? 1/23/2006   DannyGo
41 Major Tom to Spin Control 10/6/2006   Otto Yamamoto
40 RNC's Guide to Identifying "Treason" 2/21/2006   Ryland
40 We're Bringing the War Back Home! 7/24/2006   Otto Yamamoto
40 Death To Saddam! 11/5/2006   Otto Yamamoto
40 A different point of view 11/21/2006   redraven
40 Bush administration works to prevent lead deficiency in children 12/7/2006   Ryland
40 I need help. 4/23/2007   Ryland
39 User registrations? 11/14/2004   Ryland
39 Why Does Jesus Hate America? 7/10/2005   E_B_A
39 Question for the conservatives 6/26/2006   Ryland
38 Meet the New War, Same as the Old War 4/16/2004   Matt
38 9/11 is a Joke 6/30/2004   E_B_A
38 Make Your Vote (Re)Count 7/29/2004   Ryland
38 Browser Stats 9/15/2004   Ryland
38 Boob Advisory: ELEVATED (Significant risk of cleavage) 6/6/2005   Ryland
38 Bush in 2004: wiretaps require warrants 12/21/2005   Ryland
38 Another Room In the House of Straw 4/29/2007   Otto Yamamoto
37 I Have No Life & I Must Scream 4/20/2006   Ryland
37 Another amateur bible scholar 5/10/2006   Ryland
37 Get off the damn phone!! 5/11/2006   redraven
36 Double Standards and the al Qaeda/Iraq Connection 6/18/2004   E_B_A
36 Who is out of the mainstream again? 9/25/2005   Ryland
36 Wal*Mart and Freedom of Speech 10/7/2005   Otto Yamamoto
36 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law 10/29/2006   Ryland
36 The hypocrisy of anti-evolutionists 1/5/2007   Ryland
36 Boredom, beauty and beyond. 3/11/2007   E_B_A
35 All your sexuality are belong to Jesus 11/11/2004   Ryland
35 I don't like things that are bad. 3/16/2005   Ryland
35 Female orgasm: evolutionary necessity or just for fun? 5/19/2005   Ryland
35 Christian Exodus targets S. Carolina for Christian State 7/26/2005   Ryland
35 Do you earn $40k a year? According to Dennis Hastert, you don't pay any taxes. 5/19/2006   Ryland
35 Terra in The Great White North 6/5/2006   Otto Yamamoto
35 Accidental Honesty. 6/20/2006   Otto Yamamoto
34 John Kerry to BushCo: "Step off" 3/11/2004   Ryland
34 The Transgender Cabal 6/5/2004   Ryland
34 Ent misbehavin', savin' my love for yew 4/10/2005   Ryland
34 a boy and his PODCAST - Episode #1 is on the air! 2/12/2006   DannyGo
33 The Incredibles 11/18/2004   Ryland
33 Harriet Carter, your anal retention superstore 2/16/2005   Ryland
33 World's Smallest Political Quiz 6/7/2005   Ryland
33 Smut! Filth! Breasts! Ooo! 7/28/2006   Ryland
33 The Nature of the Beast 8/23/2006   Otto Yamamoto
33 A National Guard that Can't Guard... 5/20/2007   E_B_A
32 Spoofed 7/15/2004   Ryland
32 Why gay marriage? Here's 1,049 reasons why. 10/26/2004   Ryland
32 Pop culture bits 5/23/2005   Ryland
32 Hugh Thompson, Jr., RIP 1/6/2006   Ryland
32 Recapping the War on Christianity 4/18/2006   Ryland
32 $204 million? I could get by. 8/5/2006   Ryland
32 Ted Haggard's back and asking for cash 8/24/2007   Ryland
31 Air America Radio is GO 3/31/2004   Ryland
31 The Silent Majority 4/18/2004   Ryland
31 Missile defense? Still? Are you serious? 5/19/2004   Ryland
31 Unconventional Geneva Warfare (this is a veritable flame magnet) 6/11/2004   E_B_A
31 No WMDs found; Liberals blamed anyway 1/13/2005   Ryland
31 New male contraceptive clears hurdle 3/31/2006   Ryland
31 Stupid Size It! 6/30/2006   Otto Yamamoto
31 Sushi cakes 5/9/2007   Ryland
31 Some People Just Can't Give It Up 6/13/2008   Otto Yamamoto
30 The Google Problem 11/24/2005   Ryland
30 New design (again) 9/8/2004   Ryland
30 American pets now sleep better 9/23/2004   E_B_A
30 Black squirrels: evolution in action 5/23/2005   Ryland
30 The French Connection! 8/1/2006   Otto Yamamoto
30 Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils 12/3/2006   Mermaid
30 Complainin!(I do it so well!) 5/8/2007   Otto Yamamoto
29 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes 3/24/2004   Ryland
29 Ideology 7/17/2004   Ryland
29 Finally, something we can agree on (I hope) 12/4/2005   Ryland
29 Fan Mail 10/21/2004   Ryland
29 No ranting today 6/15/2005   Ryland
29 How's It Going, Everyone? 11/7/2005   Sir Craig
29 WMDs found! Except not really. 6/22/2006   Ryland
29 We've been found out 8/30/2006   Ryland
29 Easter, by all its other names... 3/20/2008   redraven
28 Terrorists vs. U.S. Government 1/11/2002   Ryland
28 Sign, sign, everywhere a sign 8/2/2004   Ryland
28 Sponsor of Marriage Protection act facing divorce 4/22/2005   Ryland
28 Russians scientists liquor up a pig and shoot it out of a cannon 2/6/2006   Ryland
28 I am lame and my site sucks :( 2/6/2006   Ryland
28 Oh Yeah, Those Guys 3/17/2006   Ryland
28 Putin disses Bush at G8 7/16/2006   Ryland
28 Republican Hypocrisy 10/9/2006   Mermaid
28 Conservapedia 2/22/2007   Ryland
27 The First 35 Months 7/19/2004   Ryland
27 Cornyn tacitly approves religious violence 4/5/2005   Ryland
27 Federal judge strikes down Intelligent Design in Pennsylvania schools 12/20/2005   Ryland
27 Shay's Best Comeback: Remember Chappaquiddick! 10/12/2006   Steve
26 Finally 9/10/2004   Ryland
26 Google Maps 2/8/2005   Ryland
26 Not sure how to respond to this one 7/6/2006   Ryland
26 Bobbi Bunny Iconography! 11/11/2006   Otto Yamamoto
26 Zoom zoom zoom 1/24/2007   Ryland
25 Moving Right Along 5/12/2004   Matt
25 Vote for Bush or perish in hellfire, sinners 5/6/2005   Ryland
25 Association Of International Glaucoma Societies 2/24/2006   Ryland
25 Idiots of the Week 3/3/2006   Otto Yamamoto
25 Did you know? 5/11/2006   Ryland
25 10 Most Dangerous Play Things of All Time 12/18/2006   Mermaid
25 Update, RE: I need help. 4/25/2007   Ryland
25 Just In Time For The War On Christmas! Atheistic Fundamentalism 12/22/2007   Otto Yamamoto

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trivia fact #2210
Earthquakes release a tremendous amount of energy, which is why they can be so destructive. The figures below show magnitudes with the approximate amount of TNT needed to release the same amount of energy.

Magnitude Approximate TNT Energy
4.0 6 tons
5.0 199 tons
6.0 6,270 tons
7.0 199,000 tons
8.0 6,270,000 tons
9.0 99,000,000 tons
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McChristians
Interesting essay by Laurence Vance on Christians and Mc Cain.
Folow The Leader
An arch conservative critiques 'conservatism': I think it's pretty spot on.
New Fear & Loathing: Sly and Robbie-Bank Job!
But when report card comes, I ALWAYS pass, cos I'm the best M.C. in the whole gym class!
Banks get a $140B tax gift. Merry Christmas, banks!
Banks get a $140B tax gift (ON TOP of the $700B bailout package)--Treasury Dept. reverses section of tax code that forbids banks from avoiding taxes by purchasing failing companies. And Congress is just shrugging their shoulders.
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New Fear & Loathing: Steely Dan-Don't Take Me Alive!
A tribute to the new 'Conservative Underground!'
New Fear & Loathing: There Is A Number of Small Things
Newsweek's Special Election Project
The computer systems of both the Obama campaign and the McCain campaign were hacked by an unknown 'foreign entity', and other tidbits from the campaign trail.
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The Face of Proposition 8 (video)
"I'm voting no on Prop 8. I'll take love over hate any day."
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The Idiots who Rule America
We have Decline.
Mog O Rama
Otto Yamamoto: Crazy Cat Man!
Local talk radio moran thinks NSA Whistleblowers should be jailed
Austin Rhodes is a local talk radio moran. Recently NSA employees exposed secret warrentless wiretap recordings of American soldiers speaking over the phone to their American friends and families back home and he thinks they should be locked up.
Posted by E_B_A :: 2 comments
Hate You Can Believe In
ACORN deluged with threatening and racist voicemails and e-mails
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YouTube - The McCain-Palin Mob
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FOX objects to unretouched Sarah Palin photo on cover of Newsweek
Apparently, running a real photo of a politician is now a "slap in the face" and women everywhere should be outraged.
Posted by E_B_A :: 5 comments
Make-Believe Maverick
"A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty."
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Keating Economics: John McCain And The Making Of A Financial Crisis
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Yamamoto For President!
Yep, I finally got on the news!
What I Do For Fun
What I do at weekends. It's Noise With A Beat!
Grumcorp
Interesting art and photography from one of my flickr friends
AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
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Health Care Not Wealth Care?
"I will die without a home. I will die without ever regaining what I lost. And I will die with the bastards who I am bailing out today looking down their noses at me like I am a piece of garbage."
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Elitists Anonymous
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Maybe It Wasn't The Surge...
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My Gal, by George Saunders
"Now, let us discuss the Élites. There are two kinds of folks: Élites and Regulars. Why people love Sarah Palin is, she is a Regular."
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latest user comments
E_B_A, 11/21/2008 6:59am:
I tried to call them but the voice mail boxes are all full.
martin, 11/20/2008 7:24am:
I would have thought the way Obama inspires worship would have irked the Exodus 20.3 crowd... not the fact ...
Mermaid, 11/19/2008 12:01am:
I love how the phone number to that church is clearly visible. FYI, the area code for Wichita ...
Otto Yamamoto, 11/18/2008 7:49pm:
Exodus 20.3(KJV): Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Um, like, what? I would assume this refers to Allah.
redraven, 11/18/2008 6:47pm:
I wasn't aware that the people who wrote the bible knew anything about America. How could Obama being ...
Byelotsar, 11/15/2008 8:44pm:
Sure, the economic damage would be significant and lasting, unless they take a page out of the random megacorp's ...
Byelotsar, 11/15/2008 8:37pm:
I agree on all points, believe me. With any luck the Republicans will be out of power for a ...
MeatFarley, 11/14/2008 5:12pm:
Don't blame me, I voted for Barkley.
Otto Yamamoto, 11/13/2008 6:19pm:
I dunno, Skankin' Al Franken can't be any worse than some other losers that have held office. My motivations ...
Otto Yamamoto, 11/13/2008 6:07pm:
Well, consider the source. I didn't post it because I agreed with it, I just thought it was interesting. ...
Ryland, 11/13/2008 10:36am:
If I'm not mistaken, losing their tax-exempt status (or rather, their non-profit status) means that they have to pay ...
Byelotsar, 11/13/2008 9:46am:
I have no idea as to Franken's qualifications for office (my guess is that they aren't terribly strong), but ...
Byelotsar, 11/13/2008 9:39am:
Hush yer mouth!! But he was just talking about America getting the shaft.
Byelotsar, 11/13/2008 9:19am:
Fining them makes sense to me. Ten to one ratio, why not? Two hundred million dollars is probably more ...
Ryland, 11/13/2008 8:54am:
I'll give him credit for consistency, if not for sanity.
redraven, 11/13/2008 1:52am:
Hush yer mouth!! I've got enough grey hairs as it is!
Otto Yamamoto, 11/11/2008 10:08pm:
Well, that's not entirely impossible. We could always end up with Sarah Palin in 2016. HAW! HAW! HAW! ...
redraven, 11/11/2008 8:13pm:
Someone would have to go a way looooooooooooong way to make Bush look good. We'll all ...
Otto Yamamoto, 11/11/2008 6:44pm:
The US is in for a bunch of crap now. Obama will make Bush look good. He'll have ...
Ryland, 11/11/2008 3:07pm:
I'm bookmarking your comment, John, and in a couple of years we'll come back and see how right you are.
John, 11/11/2008 2:56pm:
The US is in for a bunch of crap now. Obama will make Bush look good.
Ryland, 11/9/2008 11:07pm:
If I'm not mistaken, their tax exemption derives from their status as a non-profit organization, not as a religious ...
Otto Yamamoto, 11/9/2008 11:06pm:
"Wha-? WTF?" some of you may be asking. It's simple: You take away their tax exemption and start taxing ...
Sir Craig, 11/9/2008 9:32pm:
My first reaction when I found out about the LDS being some of the biggest spenders on the "Yes ...
Jacob, 11/6/2008 3:28pm:
I've already seen a couple headlines and heard a few stories and interviews on NPR suggesting Sarah Palin is ...
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