analogous to Apple fanboys whining about PCs and berating their users/supporters.

'All head, no heart?' Since when is a corporation supposed to be about 'heart'?

I don't need to go into Google's acts of CSR (corporate social responsibility) - or they adherence the the credo of "Do No Evil".

This is one of the few companies that can truly conceive what the Net is about, and what possibilities it can offer.

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Maybe you are reflexively antagonistic to any tech firm not run by Lord Steve Jobs; that's your problem, and maybe you should look into getting an iShrink or other iCoping Mechanism Touch to handle that.

But if you feel the itch to slag an Evil Empire, fanboys, Microsoft is always out there....and Google is simply out of your league.

P.S. - Dr. Spock rocked. Deal with it, illogicals.

1.) After eating at a cafeteria or food court, do not bus your dining tray to the garbage! Just leave it there...

2.) When you're the one who uses up the last of a food item - milk in the fridge, coffee in a breakroom pot - leave just two tiny drops remaining, and don't replace or refill it!

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Oh, the huge manatee! Rock on with your pushy, bad self...=)

Jeez, people - pull the stick out of your you-know-where...

Just reading the sub-heading to this article should tell you that this is an offbeat, lighthearted tale...not a peer-reviewed Journal of Cranio-Facial Structure thesis.

Does the Salon writer make any claims that this is hard scientific inquiry at work? Of course not.

It's a harmless puff piece. There are much worse stories in journalism and events transpiring in general to get your collective manties 'n' panties in a bunch over...

(For example: ending sentences in prepositions! =)

the monkeys can toss a turd across the way; but that doesn't make them funny or clever. Just ill-tempered.

Well, some might say the humor likes not in the act - but in the result.

I.e.: Monkeys toss turds. Not inherently funny.

BUT...Tossed turds hit a rabbi, a priest and an atheist in the face? Now we're getting somewhere, humor-wise! ;-)

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I've always wondered: why are monkeys grouped in barrels? Why not a crate of monkeys? Or an armoire of monkeys?

Nope, it's always a fun "barrel" of monkeys. Are these simians somehow similar to crude oil?

As a Twins 'n' Yanks supporter who's grown sick & tired of hearing BoSox fans hypocritically trash the Yankees for being a big-money abomination (look in the mirror, people), I'm definitely rootin' for the Rays.

I just wonder how Beantown fanatic Bill Simmons is gonna spin this over on ESPN. First the Patsies suffer the "18-1" embarrassment, now the Sox start resembling the 80's Yanks. Let's just hope the Celtics choke next season to complete the trifecta!

He made fun of ridiculously rich people who got paid ridiculous sums simply to look pretty or handsome.

Forgive me if I don't shed tears of sympathy for thin-skinned megalomaniacs so deeply wounded that someone had the unmitigated gall to NOT fawningly kiss their overexposed arses.

Rock on, Mr. Blackwell. Here's hoping that whereever you are, you're still telling it like it is. RIP

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As for Bjork's swan dress?

She once said she would never wear blue jeans because it represented American consumerism.

{Of course, she has no problem earning profits when Americans purchase / consume her CDs, cassettes, posters etc...but whatever,}

Thus, I find it deeply ironic that a rich Icelandic woman who buys / wears a thousand-dollar swan dress for one-time use only would look down with anti-consumerist scorn upon working-class grunts who wear rugged blue jeans to work...y'know, actual work - until they are ragged shreds, because they are not blessed with a nasal helium voice adored for some reason by billions.

Just sayin...

{Yeah, my collar has some blue in it.

Yeah, I'm damn proud of it too...}

Ummmm, no. Not even close. Looks like a million other plain-jane sorority types...with beadier eyes:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/AmandaKnox_468x369.jpg

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I can't help thinking that the demonizing of Knox -- not as a coldblooded murderer but as a sexual huntress --

News flash, Tracy: the press demonizes anyone even tangentially suspected in a sex & murder scandal - while simultaneously deifying the victim(s).

Think of how the US media "angel-ized" Natalee Holloway as a virginal, pristine, Christian, Southern American belle...ravaged by a couple brown-skinned Caribbean barbarian brothers and their sleazy Dutch friend.

The truth? Holloway was probably more "Girls Gone Wild" than the USA wants to admit (drunken partying with 3 male strangers? That's a pristine Xtian Southern girl for ya, right?).

And the eeevil Aruban monsters who must have surely preyed on her? No chance they just happened to be just scared, dumb kids stuck with a Yankee girl who suddenly OD'd & died on them...and they panicked? No sirree - they are savages, I tell ya!

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The media in the States and around the world hasn't changed much from the scandal-chasin' pulp writers of early Hollywood days.

Sex sells. Scandal sells. Evil, sexy villains sell.

Sure, Feminist Thinking 101 automatically equates this with "fear of strong women".

But if you put aside the knee-jerk reflexive response for a second, you'll see this demonization for what it is:

Societies and media reacting the way they ALWAYS have to news of a tawdry, sleazy event.