Luckily for us - er, for perverts - their clicks become smoothed into a nice 30 Hz tone.

Bring on the cell phone subwoofers.

"The layoffs, which were spread across the company, were ... a response to today's very tough economic climate."

It's just that the people he interacts with daily are smart enough to figure the rest out without bitching about it.

Well, since you've already broken statute 16-15-250, and are now subject to fines and up to three years of imprisonment, I'd suggest you stay home.

Oh, and Jesus loves you.

http://www.apa.org/releases/resolutiononvideoviolence.pdf

I especially like the part where R-rated movies were included in the bill based on the conclusions of similar dubious studies. Oh, wait, they weren't. Wonder why that is?

More importantly, who says you can't get a physically smaller LCD screen than the iPhone with the same number of pixels.

There are several phones out now (HTC, OpenMoko) with a 2.8" 640x480 LCD. There is no reason an iPhone Nano couldn't sport a 480x320 2.2" display and have zero resolution-based issues.

My favorite commentary on carbon offsetting is Cheat Neutral

Brilliant way to make a statement. Yes, it is real. No, the creators don't keep the money. No, I'm not involved with the company/website.

You are so wrong about loss of jobs in TV and advertising. It is the beer industry that will suffer from this transition.

Seriously, what other money do you expect them to pool to buy a converter box when the whole system goes off-line?

I also predict that Spanish-language newspapers will see a large sales spike until everyone figures out why their TV no longer works.

Personally I'm glad the program is out of money. I would have ordered more coupons and let them expire had it been legal.

I have nothing against TV. I do have something against welfare for TV-viewers who can't or won't spend $40 for something to allow them to keep watching.

I ordered my allocation and promptly shredded them. I know they go back into the pool at some point but I'm hoping that time period will be long enough that the transition will have happened and the government won't have to reissue them.

If you can't afford a $40 converter box, turn the TV off and get a job.

as the first chink in the army

Ooh. You should take more care to get that metaphor right. When "armor" is replaced by a word that encompasses "group of people," chink assumes a definition I'm sure you didn't intend.

anus stretched to almost athletic proportions

Yeah I'm pretty sure O.J. holds the Biggest Athletic Asshole award now.

Check the statistics on charitable giving to see what I mean.

Let's be honest about this breakdown. The real divide is between secular and non-secular haves (vs. have-nots), they just happen to split fairly nicely along party lines.

Giving to your local church in my view is not the same as giving to a charity doing important work in the real world. Some churches do valuable things with their donations. Many just use them to grow bigger churches and bother me by sending their mothers around to my door on Saturday mornings to discuss why I feel that the self-referencing nature of the Bible makes it a poor basis for a belief system.

From this article: http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm "In 2000, religious people gave three and a half times as much as secular people."

When 10% of your paycheck is "donated" to secure your status in the afterlife, is it still charity?