you go Sid!
Did you take up Alex's offer yet and start authoring blog posts here?

Adam: try living under Socialism. It's for people who believe that government knows better than them. Inherent in this is that government knows better than you what to do with YOUR own money. It NEVER will - and the clearest explanation of why not is in this classic little video clip of Milton Friedman: 4 ways to spend money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un4-eI1T71E

I wish people with this much time on their hands would consider lambasting Socialism with as much energy. That's as much a religion as Mormonism, and far more widespread, not to mention far more detrimental to a lot more people's lives.

Dan: shut it

It would be "neat" if the surgery was a fantastic success and he got his life back, but it seems that Neatorama now seems to think that the misfortune of folks in various different situations is worthy of including with all the actual real neat stuff they post.

Alex: you need to reign these contributors in. Otherwise this site will continue moving in the direction of sicko disturbing sites like rotten.com and all the other depraved crap out there.

It would help if the audio was clearer and her voice louder than the music. I understood only about 40 percent of what she sang. A funny idea though.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Bizarro is unfunny and lazy and ignorant with his humor most of the time, but occasionally he gets it right. But even his unfunny work has a nice illustration style.

It's 4 days later, and I doubt anyone's paying attention, but here's the New Scientist (which tends left and promotes the "Global Warming" message) on biofuels:
Forget biofuels - burn oil and plant forests instead
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12496-forget-biofuels--burn-oil-and-plant-forests-instead.html

SmartyDeny: you have a gift for diplomacy, not to mention imaginative vocabulary. The word "Republiscum", for example really tends to bring people together and smooth things over.

Alex: why is it that every time I post to Neatorama I see the message "Your comments are awaiting moderation" and sometimes have to wait half a day before it appears, and yet you let offensive trolls like this one get away with comments like this?

We love you Sid. Alex should give you a co-author job here so you can contribute your own blog posts. You bring to light what the Associated Press article glosses over when they attribute the reason for the border crossing birth to Galgary's "growth", rather than the inadequacy of the socialist health "care" system.
Neatorama is one of the best pop culture blogs going, but it seems to me they could use your sort of perspective on things to balance some of the wayward co-bloggers they've brought on recently. (And I don't mean Miss Cellania.)

Re: HFCS - I don't care whether they put it in foods or not, just so long as they label accurately. Anyone paying attention would have stopped consuming HFCS ten or fifteen years ago. I did. Similarly I don't care whether other people are obese or not. It's their body, they can do want they want with it.
Re: Diesel engines. If they're so great then why do they stink so much, release more soot and particulate than regular gasoline and cause engines to be noisier?
If you've spent any time in a country like England which seems to adore diesel fuel then try taking a day trip to London, then at the end of the day (sorry for the icky description) blow your nose to find nasty black residue in your Kleenex.

vandoo - we could have a nice head-nodding polite conversation here, but that wouldn't make for interesting discussion, would it? The first part of your post was fine, but you undermined it with the stuff about polenta and then segueing into obesity. Now I'm not about to defend the corn-growers and their subsidies for growing corn-based biofuel or anything else, but you seem to confuse your argument by being some sort of corn recipe connoisseur at the same time as getting on your soap box about HFCS.
Where were we? Biofuel seeds. By all means. let's diversify the energy sources. If it doesn't pan out without subsidies or trade restrictions and all that nonsense then so be it. Maybe Jatropha fuel won't be going in your vehicle engine at all, but may find a niche as the best fuel for some other use. Perhaps in the future there might be micro-refineries that enable, say, certain size farms to economically devote some of their land to grow their own fuel. Fuel that doesn't have to be transported any further than down a pipe from the farm refinery to the farm vehicle shed.

Hey Sid -
will you marry me?
No - seriously. The yawning chasm between vandoo's simplistic sheep-think and your concise summary of the issue illustrates how well most people understand bio-fuels and related matters.
But given the choice I'd rather be driving around in a safe, heavy air-bagged tank than one of those plastic Euro-weenie 2 person things that look like student-designed concept cars of the dystopian future, thank you very much...

Hey vandoo -
Civility? Like spelling someone's name correctly?

Edward, try to engage brain first before commenting. Where do you think the carbon comes from during that frightful burning process? Does it come out of "the ether"? Another dimension? Evil Republican Secret Pollution Stockpiles? The plant that the seeds come from sucks carbon out of the very air itself while it grows the seeds. Now go back to school. And mouth-breathing.