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1. over 8 years ago on Pluggers

   Could also be a synergistic idea for voter suppression — combine reduction of voting places with reduction of restrooms per voting place. More bowel & bladder tension = less need to pay voters any attention.

2. over 9 years ago on Clay Bennett

   If only Chattanooga had stopped that gun-toting law-abiding good guy Mohammad Abdulazeez before he just went a little funny in the head and began shooting people. He was diagnosed with manic depressive/bipolar disorder, for which he had sought treatment with a psychiatrist, and he used drugs. His parents asked him to give up drugs and seek substance abuse treatment, but he refused, as was his right, just like his our your right to keep and bear arms in the USA, no matter how mentally unstable you may be.

3. almost 11 years ago on Ballard Street

   Actor and comedian Bob Cummings portrayed a character who believed in “sloshing,” assuming this posture to help move the blood around inside the human body.

4. over 11 years ago on Pluggers

   Years ago I entered a Portland (OR) restaurant so dim that it had theater-style footlights beside each stair treader going up the tiered seating levels. I ordered a fish I’d never tried before and thought its texture was very unusual, until i held the plate under the dim light beside our table and realized I was actually eating a sliced mushroom on top of that filet. In France all the better restaurants are well lit, and the dives and bistros are dim — the opposite pertains in the USA.

5. over 11 years ago on Tom Toles

   YES!