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Like always, I'm doing "the post of each month with the most comments", not the first or last or some such.

January:
The Winner: On sequels that aren't sequels.
The reason it got so many comments: A discussion of favourite movies that are sequels but that don't require you to watch the first one or even necessarily reference the first one. Eg, Desperado to El Mariachi, or Death To Smoochy to Fight Club.

February:
The Winner: I'm certainly going to see the movie, now.
The reason it got so many comments: There's a raccoon with a machine gun riding an Ent.

March:
The Winner: Best movie to walk into blind, knowing nothing about the premises or the plot.
The reason it got so many comments: People around here like movies.

April:
The Winner: "Study of Pot Smokers' Brains Shows That MRIs Cause Bad Science Reporting"
The reason it got so many comments: Baen work-for-hire author Matthew Joseph Harrington went into an extremely racist mostly-incoherent meltdown in the comments. He's got a reputation for doing that, but on this day he did it here.

May:
The Winner: An important note for Hugo voting.
The reason it got so many comments: Addressing a misconception on the proper use of "no vote" on the Hugo ballets. Also has a ninja astronaut airsurfing a draculabot.

June:
The Winner: Old questions are often fun.
The reason it got so many comments: Four questions with nonintuitive answers.

July:
The Winner: See? It's SCIENCE. Always get the bigger pizza.
The reason it got so many comments: Apparently "more pizza = more better" is a topic of discussion? I dunno.

August:
The Winner: Instant-runoff voting question
The reason it got so many comments: An interesting degenerative-case thought experiment on voting. Also Hugo comments.

September:
The Winner: Wherein I point out the obvious about phones.
The reason it got so many comments: Apple fans get really excited when, years late, they finally start being able to do the things everyone else has been doing, and they don't like it when you point out that the "new exciting feature" on the iDevice is something that's come standard on every other device for a very long time. But I like pointing that kind of thing out.

October:
The Winner: Uh, October was a REALLY slow month. So this cat picture technically wins, but not by much.
The reason it got so many comments: It kinda didn't. It just got one more than like 5 other unremarkable posts.


November:
The Winner: A three-way tie! ""MOZILLA. STAHP.", "Audi engineers their cars to survive sabotage by weasels", and "MRI-ing a banana plant."
The reason it got so many comments: Mozilla pretends that Yahoo are a real company with a real product, martens devouring car bits on video with German narration and it's NOT porn, and a really cool image.


December:
The Winner: DON'T FUCKING REHEAT RICE
The reason it got so many comments: I and a startling number of other commenters had never actually heard this advice with reference to rice - to wit, never eat rice that's reached room temperature after cooking. Eat it hot, fridge it while hot, reheat it to hot, never leave it at room temperature.


The Odometer:
18,139 Journal Entries (560 this year)
117,295 comments received, 34,915 comments posted
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Running a little late this year, although I'm backdating the entry to make it LOOK like I did it on time, in retrospect.

Like always, I'm doing "the post of each month with the most comments", not the first or last or some such.

January:
The Winner: I am bored, therefore there will be Audience Participation.
The reason it got so many comments: "Evangelise your favourite obscure movie". Also " Satanists in smalltown Ontario is always going to be comedy gold."

February:
The Winner: I don't.... what is.... what.
The reason it got so many comments: Ham And Bananas Hollandaise.

March:
The Winner: Automounting an encrypted disk, without prompting for a password.
The reason it got so many comments: Nerd question, wherein I propose doing something that's kinda dumb from many valid perspectives.

April:
The Winner: "Pop Quiz, everyone!
The reason it got so many comments: A scientific method to determine The Best Music Video Ever.

May:
The Winner: On Marvel vs DC
The reason it got so many comments: "It's wrong to tie Christopher Nolan down and tattoo 'a watchman IS a civilian' on his eyelids, right?"

June:
The Winner: "What would 'going too far' look like?"
The reason it got so many comments: Some dude defending Paula Deen by arguing that white people are the real victims of racism, because when they do and say racist things they get frowned at.

July:
The Winner: "Hey, did you see this?
The reason it got so many comments: It kinda didn't, but July was a really slow month and this one won. It's a quick heads up to Cherie Priest that she's being slandered by an infamous idiot on the blog of an infamous asshole, and I thought that if she'd missed it she might want to know.

August:
The Winner: On common practices.
The reason it got so many comments: Discussion of checking the label versus the prescription to make sure they match.

September:
The Winner: Count the number of things wrong with this picture.
The reason it got so many comments: Its easily the worst infographic I've seen in months.

October:
The Winner: Nerdy Slice Of Life
The reason it got so many comments: Again, a very slow month. But "all of Stephen King's work fits in Deadlands."


November:
The Winner: A thing that I am doing, and you should too
The reason it got so many comments: Orson Scott Card is a terrible person who actively works to hurt people who've done nothing wrong.


December:
The Winner: Is it just me or is Livejournal broken?
The reason it got so many comments: Livejournal was broken, which is apparently the only thing people use Livejournal to talk about these days.


The Odometer:
17,579 Journal Entries (607 this year - a drop of almost 30%)
113,871 comments received, 33,041 comments posted
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Like always, I'm doing "the post of each month with the most comments", not the first or last or some such.

January:
The Winner: Bad Joke Thread!
The reason it got so many comments: BAD. JOKE. THREAD.

February:
The Winner: A musical poll!
The reason it got so many comments: Arguments of what is The Saddest Song Ever.

Honorable Mention: My favourite Mass Effect 3 spoiler: "The final boss battle of ME3 is against the zombies of all the squad members who died in the first two games. If none of them died, you have to beat the Illusive Man at Rock Band instead."

March:
The Winner: Single-Sentence Review of The Hunger Games
The reason it got so many comments: "The Running Man, for tweens"

April:
The Winner: "What kind of fire melts stone?"
The reason it got so many comments: A Game Of Thrones showed the ruins of Harrenhal, and they were pretty.

May:
The Winner: Anyone out there in readerland watching the TV A Game Of Thrones, without having read the books?
The reason it got so many comments: Reader feedback, nerd discussion, pop culture. UH, YEAH. Around here's that's a comment factory.

June:
The Winner: "I am done tryling to please bullies."
The reason it got so many comments: Rape Culture discussions can get long, fast, especially when the original widely-spread otherwise-excellent comic uses "men" when it means "straight cis men" and this gets pointed out. The comment count would be even higher had [livejournal.com profile] bijziend not tried to memory-hole the evidence of her derailment attempt when she flounced.

July:
The Winner: under what circumstances is a marriage PROHIBITED?
The reason it got so many comments: An interesting list!

Honorable Mention: "Browser add-ons"
The reason it got so many comments: A collection of people's favourite browser mods. Useful for linkage! Also contains quotables, like [livejournal.com profile] jerril's "Adblock Plus will make you feel like you fell into a new internet, where everything loads faster and isn't being carried around by a horde of clowns screaming for your attention."

August:
The Winner: Novels where the villains win!
The reason it got so many comments: Ohgod. Book arguments, including not just lists but arguments over definitions of "novels", "villains", and "win".

September:
The Winner: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
The reason it got so many comments: The dudes who made Planescape, Fallout 1 + 2 + New Vegas, and Arcanum had a kickstarter for their new game.

Honorable Mention: Schadenfreude, explained in exactly 1000 words.
Just go look at it. Seriously.

October:
The Winner: Iconic, classic villains who are so associated with their ongoing property that they show up at or near the top of every Rogues Gallery, but didn't exist until LONG after the original property was well established. GO.
The reason it got so many comments: Uh. I think a lot of this year's list can be summed up as "long discussions of nerdy stuff". And I'm okay with that?


November:
The Winner: It's that time of year again!
The reason it got so many comments: A problem with no solution, that's kinda brainmelty.

Honourable Mention: I accidentally a kitten. Nobody tell my wife, okay?"
Related: Do you know how hard it is to take a good picture of a fluffy solid-black cat without her turning into a dark lump on the background? Sheesh.

December:
The Winner: What are the minimum requirements for "a literature education" in modern English
The reason it got so many comments: I hear lots of people around here like arguing about books.


The Odometer:
16,972 Journal Entries (952 this year)
109,944 comments received, 31,161 comments posted
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Like always, I'm doing "the post of each month with the most comments", not the first or last or some such.

January:
The Winner: Fox News: "We don't know about the moon."
The reason it got so many comments: Bill O'Reilly claims that God is why tides work, and that no other explanation is possible, let alone plausible.

Honorable Mention from Jan 2010 because it still got comments in 2011: "The Book Of Eli: A review in five words."
The reason it got so many comments: To this day I maintain it is the worst movie of 201X. This *may* change next year, but I doubt it. I also doubt it for all the other years of 201X.

February:
The Winner: "I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" - God
The reason it got so many comments: Yet another thing "God" is wrong about. NEXT?

Honorable Mention: "On Valve, me, candy coating, and why that doesn't matter:."
The reason it got so many comments: The best video game of all time, available for current platforms.

March:
The Winner: Today's complete touchpad UI failure: Strangely, not Apple!
The reason it got so many comments: It's a UI failure! That isn't Apple's! That's WORSE than Apple's worst! That's INSANE. That NEVER HAPPENS, except HP somehow did it.

April:
The Winner: A question for the barbecue afficionados.
The reason it got so many comments: I asked a question about COOKING MEAT WITH FIRE.

May:
The Winner: "Four deaf people in hospital after being stabbed at a bar by someone who thought ASL meant they were throwing gang signs."
The reason it got so many comments: I used "deaf-mute", an offensive term, taken from the original source, in the original post. When this was pointed out I corrected my post. Other people, when told that something was an offensive slur, felt the need to defend it TO THE DEATH.

June:
The Winner: And people keep telling me that some religion, THEIR religion, is different.
The reason it got so many comments: Your religion is not different. If you think it is, you are wrong, and that is sad.

July:
The Winner: Am commenting on A Dance With Dragons. There are spoilers in the comments. Beware.
The reason it got so many comments: SOME DUDE WROTE A BOOK YO.

Honorable Mention: "Dell is driving me to drink."
The reason it got so many comments: It didn't. It was just the first post of mine with a post number over FOUR MILLION.

August:
The Winner: the combination of Because MATH, that's why.
The reason it got so many comments: Some people are bad at math, some are bad at word problems. Some are bad at both.

September:
The Winner: "An informal poll: Movies where the bad guys win, outright.
The reason it got so many comments: Oh come on, how can that NOT provoke arguments?

October:
The Winner: Nothing. I posted, apparently, NO interesting things in October. The closest I got was "I, Memesheep" and "How about a nice game of chess?"

November:
The Winner: Mormons once again ruin everything for everyone.
The reason it got so many comments: Mormons ruin everything. Which could also be the description of February's entry, really.

December:
The Winner: YOU do not know Ysgramor. But I do.
The reason it got so many comments: I hear Skyrim was popular in December or something.


New thing this year, The Odometer:
16,020 Journal Entries
101,762 comments received, 28,530 comments posted
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Like always, I'm doing "the post of each month with the most comments", not the first or last or some such.

January:
The Winner: "The Book Of Eli: A review in five words."
The reason it got so many comments: On Jan 15th I called this the worst movie of 2010, and I stand by that. I also called it the worst movie of 201X, which "In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale 2: Dungeon Harder" is potentially competing for, but I think The Book Of Eli will still win out. In the end, this movie was internally inconsistent, had as it's *core plot point* something that required the Book to be literally fifteen meters thick to do, and if you accepted it's idiotic illiterate premise, it immediately became BORING. Only by rejecting the premise could the movie be interesting, and once you reject the premise, it's stupid.

February:
The Winner: Religious Bigot Flight School erects giant cross in the middle of Religious Bigot Flight School's designated non-Religious-Bigot worship area.
The reason it got so many comments: [livejournal.com profile] pope_guilty defends at length the erection of a hate group's threat in the middle of a minority group's "safe space" as "littering". Seriously, dude, you were like half the comments there. And, as I predicted, the people responsible for the "non-christians must DIE" message? Not punished.

March:
The Winner: "They're not rapists, they're enthusiasts!"
The reason it got so many comments: Apparently [livejournal.com profile] theferrett quotes are popular? But, leaving him aside, this is the BNP poster child, arguing that women who report rape really deserve it. And the comments involve a whole lot more, beyond that douchebag.
For bonus points: In the world of Apple, they hope to one day soon maybe reach *2003*.

April:
The Winner: "Catholic Church, even now, covers up evidence, reassigns child rapist, and shields him from authorities while exposing him to a new crop of unwitting children."
The reason it got so many comments: [livejournal.com profile] icedrake and [livejournal.com profile] ironphoenix mistakenly think that modern Catholicism is defensible, attempt to defend it on grounds that a little child rape is okay because of all the other things the church does.

May:
The Winner: "Top ten creepiest video game moments of all time:"
The reason it got so many comments: I honestly have no idea.

June:
The Winner: "The Faculty Of TV University" and Britain In A Venn Diagram'
The reason it got so many comments: If you can't look at those and see a reason for argument, I can't help you.

July:
The Winner: 14-year-old boy, or 31-year-old woman masquerading as 14-year-old boy to fool her 16-year-old girlfriend?
The reason it got so many comments: The writer of the news article called it "a real life 'Boys Don't Cry'", meaning that she was apparently aware enough of Brandon Teena to make the reference, but had failed to realise that the stories really don't have much in common.

August:
The Winner: the combination of You! Name this cat! and Meet Angus
The reason it got so many comments: Kitty! awww, it's a kitty! Who's a kitty? YOU'RE a kitty.

September:
The Winner: "What behaviour, common and generally socially acceptable now, will be taboo in one hundred years? What thing that we do today will be viewed as barbaric, savage, backwards, and unthinkable in a century?"
The reason it got so many comments: Oh come on, how can that NOT provoke arguments?

October:
The Winner: Teabaggers: Still all racist, still all stupid.
The reason it got so many comments: It yanked in a teabagger who stuck around to argue, disengenuously and illiterately, until he realised that nobody was going to let him keep making antifactual assertions without backing them up.
Runner-up: Audience Participation Day, wherein everyone posted links to random pictures. No descriptions, no content indications, just a link to a picture (and a note if it was NSFW or not)

November:
The Winner: Dear inhabitants of lesser, inferior, other North American nation-states:
The reason it got so many comments: A loving correction about the true date of Thanksgiving is always received well.

December:
The Winner: "Am I a bad person for cracking my neighbours' wireless and resetting their SSIDs to "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner?"" and "giving to The Salvation Army is stupid."
The reason it got so many comments: The first is funny. The second is sad.
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As always, the post of the month that got the most comments.

January:
People Are Stupid. A nurse yanks out the IUDs of patients when she examines them, then lectures them about how IUDs cause abortion, then refuses to replace them citing a "conscience clause" that says she doesn't have to do her job if she doesn't want to, as long as she claims bigotry and illiteracy. For bonus points, she went *on the record* to say that she's got a foolproof defense by just claiming it was an accident that she yanked out *every* IUD of *every* patient.

Why did it get so many comments: Some people actually thought she was doing something illegal. Nope - the laws in her state make it perfectly legal. She's just being sued. I looked it up, by the way: No progress on the case so far, but no further reports of torn-out IUDs since the nurse and clinic got sued, so it's a start.

February:
Wherein I shall steal a math problem from XKCD.
Sue and Bob take turns rolling a 6-sided die. Once either person rolls a 6, the game is over. Sue rolls first. If she doesn’t roll a 6, Bob rolls the die; if he doesn’t roll a 6, Sue rolls again. They continue taking turns until one of them rolls a 6.

Bob rolls a 6 before Sue.
What is the probability Bob rolled the 6 on his second turn?

Hints: The answer is not 1/6. It is not 5/36. It is not 125/1296.
Why did it get so many comments: It's a very nonintuitive problem.

Honorable mention: Fuck You, Virgin Mobile - from *2007*. I locked it and banned further comments because it was getting 3-5 spam messages a week, since it's *still* one of the top search hits for a couple of those phrases.

March:
JOHN Watches The Watchmen, That's Who.
Why did it get so many comments: Inviting commentary, from my audience, on a geek topic, gets tons of comments. Especially when I call a lot of Alan Moore's work stupid.

Honorable mention: a two-fer with I don't need no stinkin' context. and The answers to the quiz!, wherein I ask questions about copyright law and then answer them.

April:
"Failed Attempt At Treason To Be Honoured By America's Slow Learners."

Why did it get so many comments: The confederate flag is a racist symbol, and the sole defining factor in the decision of the Slavers to rebel was, in their own words, slavery. Anyone who says differently is deluded or not paying attention.

Honorable menion: Puppy!

May:
You know why it's called "alternative medicine"?

Because if it worked, they'd just call it "medicine".


Why did it get so many comments: Homeopaths, naturopaths, antivaccinationists, yogis, and other religious idiots don't like being called stupid, even when they're stupid and they're getting people *killed* by their stupidity.

Honorable mention: "Children take energy and time! Wouldn't it be an evolutionary advantage to eat them instead? Eating your children would mean you live longer, so the lack of animals doing that disproves evolution! Duh, I eat poop!"

June:
See this young lady?

Why did it get so many comments: Jay would rather spend 50 comments claiming a massive decades-long conpiracy among thousands of people than admit that maybe Dru Blair might be a scary-good airbrusher who makes a living doing scary-good airbrushing.

July:
A Brief Visual Guide To Culture
Why did it get so many comments: Some people were disgusted. Others didn't believe this was an ongoing trend until examples got trotted out, and sometimes not even then.

August:
I should never, ever go into bookstores.

Why did it get so many comments: A long list of new books, three paragraphs on why I HATE HATE HATE HATE all the characters in Kim Harrison's books and yet bought the rest of the series and spent a couple of weeks reading through them and yelling a lot, and really, a discussion of "books we like" in *this* audience.

Honorable mention because it was so close: "Fandom, you have no taste", which got lots of comments because I hate Joss Whedon and consider him and Orson Scott Card to be pimples on the ass of the universe. And this is, inexplicably, a non-universal opinion.

September:
Humanity: Doomed

Why did it get so many comments: Battleship, The Movie.

October:
On driving, and warning signs that another driver is going to try to kill you.
Why did it get so many comments: Lots of people discussing different crazy-driver warning signs.

November:
Clarissa Ruins Thanksgiving.

Why did it get so many comments: It's Jason Yungbluth, who once drew a clown beating the Pope to death with a baby harp seal while pissing on the Vietnam Memorial, with the original Clarissa comic. It's a rape joke.

December:
Homosexuality is a sin! No, Corduroy Skirts are a sin!

Why did it get so many comments: Apparently there is some uncertainty about whether or not calling for the forceful elimination of homosexuals, as practiced by hateful American bigots, is or is not hateful and bigoted.
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As always, I don't do "first post of the month", I do "post with the most comments in that month".

January
"A music question repost from FOUR YEARS AGO!"
Why did it get lots of comments: Music wankery! Also, this is notably the first post of the year, meaning it would be the choice even in the other, inferior year-in-review meme.

February
A tie! "Because aor shouldn't have all the fun"
and
"Because "Herd immunity" is a dirty word to stupid people."
Why did they get lots of comments: #1: Airplanes on treadmills, the Monty Hall Problem and logical people being eaten by lions.
#2: antivaccination argument.

Honourable mention: "Fuck you, Virgin Mobile" from 2007 still gets comments every few months. It's cut down a lot since Virgin stopped selling the 6275i.
Honourable mention #2: "IT CAME FROM THE LINT TRAP!". My personal favourite of the Dear Former Homeowner posts.

March
Because I've done gender identity already today, why not go for broke?
Why did it get lots of comments: The linked article is "Why I Am An Abortion Doctor".

April
"In other news, water is wet and other galaxies are unfeasibly far to walk to."
Why did it get lots of comments: Widely-known Cat Piss Man being a typical Cat Piss Man is apparently shocking to some.

May
"It's a trap!"
Why did it get lots of comments: Because of this picture.


June
Another tie!
"Guess the state!" and "For sale at the Republican convention in Dallas:"
Why did they get lots of comments: #1: Statutory rape laws applied to someone who had *no way* to know the girl wasn't legal and had credible reason to believe she was.
#2: Yet more open, unabashed, unashamed Republican racism.

July
"it has been brought to my attention that The Dykes To Watch Out For Movie Test is not as well known as it should be."
Why did it get lots of comments: Some defensiveness, some arguments about whether or not the test indicates quality (IT DOES NOT), a great deal of pointing out what parts do and do not pass in various works.

Honourable Mention: Everything is better with a ham sandwich. Because it IS.

August
"Because I haven't offended enough people today:"
Why did it get lots of comments: Rape jokes, and commentary and discussion thereof.

September
"Now, THIS is how you run an election."
Why did it get lots of comments: "You have to remember that Americans trying to run an election are like Neanderthals trying assemble and operate a jet engine (actually 51 jet engines, all with slightly different specifications). You don't complain if some of the engines don't work. You marvel if they get to the end of the process and nobody has been sucked through a turbine."

October
"Obama signs in the yards of black people are being replaced by confederate flags, in Virginia."
Why did it get lots of comments: Arguments over whether the Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol of slavers or not.

November
"The moon displeases Us."
Why did it get lots of comments: Because the moon is crappy and needs to be destroyed.

December

Why did it get lots of comments: History happening live, man.
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The posts with the most comments, from this year!

January:
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to allow religious organisations to discriminate against lesbians and gay men, on condition that they accept discrimination against themselves."
Why did it get lots of comments: Religious idiocy.

February:
Fuck you, Virgin Mobile
Why did it get lots of comments: Oh, come on, it's a tech rant that also contains instructions on how to unlock a popular model of cellphone. That one *still* gets comments regularly, and it something like the third hit on Google for some of the more common search strings on that phone.

March:
"50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married."
Why did it get lots of comments: Religious idiocy.

April:
And this. Is why. You check. ID.
Why did it get lots of comments: Sexual politics, unjust rape convictions, and the arguments around that.

May
On the first day of operation [of the drop-off point for unwanted newborns], they also had their first drop-off: A toddler, approximately three years old, who was only able to tell the police that he'd come there with "daddy", that he'd taken the train with his daddy to the city and that he really didn't know where home was, or what his daddy's name is.
Why did it get lots of comments: Child abandonment.

Honourable mention:
"in my foolish and misspent youth, last weekend, I told Pete about this plan, and he stole my joke."

June:
"What else needs to go on this CD?

And no, "Satan Gave Me A Taco" doesn't fit."

Why did it get lots of comments: Music geekery!

July:
"I nearly killed a man tonight"
Why did it get lots of comments: Stupidity.

August
Guess the state! "New proposed abortion law: No abortion without written permission of the father."
Why did it get lots of comments: Religious idiocy.

September
Don't Click It, Special "John Is Pretty Skeeved Out" Edition!
Why did it get lots of comments: Two girls. One cup!

October:
ARGH I CAN'T MAKE HER SWITCH!
Why did it get lots of comments: Optical illusions are great!

November
"When the invading, cruelly oppressive, senselessly violent occupying force leaves, violent incidents drop by 90%. Wow, who'd have thought that?"
Why did it get lots of comments: "Good guys" doing very bad things.

December
"Lakota Sioux withdraw from treaties, secede from USA."
Why did it get lots of comments: Everyone's a lawyer.

Honorable mention: "The Christians of Nigeria: torturing and murdering children on the say-so of their mad God."
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And now, my annual tradition: The posts from this year that garnered the most comments.

January: High-schooler sues school board based on grounds of bias against male students: "The system is designed to the disadvantage of males," Anglin said. "From the elementary level, they establish a philosophy that if you sit down, follow orders, and listen to what they say, you'll do well and get good grades. Men naturally rebel against this."

That's right. He just said that since boys won't follow rules, a system that punishes breaking rules must naturally be biased against boys.

Reason for all the comments: sexist inbred arguing that the original complaint was valid as the public school emasculates men and makes them all weak and womanly.


February: Mob sacks Danish embassy in Damascus.

Reason for all the comments: Cartoons of Mohammed, dude. That, and I took the position that while the reaction to being offended was absurd, the offense in the first place was not so unreasonable.


March: "I just killed a kid," Charles Martin told the emergency services operator. "I shot him with a goddamn 410 shotgun twice."

Reason for all the comments: Guns.


April: Mindless religious bigotry: it's what's for breakfast!

Reason for all the comments: Cartoons of Mohammed combined with blaming American students for the actions of Saudi terrorists.

Honourable mention for April: The first thing you see in Dachau are the walls and the barbed wire. (warning: many images)


May: "If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby, and baldness is a hair color."

Reason for all the comments: For some people, apparently "not collecting stamps" is how they spend all their free time.


June: Oh, dear.

Reason for all the comments: Look at that picture! OF COURSE it got comments! There are parents who read me!

Disqualified from June competition due to friendslocking, otherwise it would have won:
"I'm painting on the board: Rattlesnake Jake. Murder. Kidnapping. Extortion."
"You spelled Extortion wrong!"
"Quiet, you. I'd spell better if I didn't have YOUR BULLET in MY HEAD."
"At least take out the C!"
"This is paint! We can't just erase things!"
"I'll add a line and turn it into a K. That's better, right?"
"Oh, great. A sign that says
Rattlesnake Jake:
Murder,
Kidnapping,
Ecks
Eksto
Extro
Stealin' Stuff"



July: A fast food restaurant cashier in Dayton, Ohio, found that it doesn’t help to be right when you’re dealing with police thugs. The cashier took an order from a cop at the drive-thru window. She gave him change for a ten, but the cop claimed he gave her a twenty. The manager confirmed that there wasn’t even a twenty in the register, but the cop came in behind the counter, pepper sprayed the cashier, and arrested her.

Reason for all the comments: Police brutality always causes discussion.

Honorable mention for July It's an announcement!


August: I think I'm offended.

Reason for all the comments: A discussion on piracy and the best way to make Apple (Interface designed by for and by geniuses! Functionality designed for and by the "more than one mouse button is too complicated" set) software work.

Disqualified from August competition due to friendslocking, otherwise it would have won:
Statement:
The kind of player who would stop playing if their character did not accumulate XP is a plague on the game and do not deserve to play at all. As such, the best policy is to give out no XP at all except for exceptional play, as a way to prevent bloat AND get rid of bad players.
Discuss!



September: For the majority of students, reading and writing are difficult enterprises with limited payoffs in the modern world.

Reason for all the comments: MSNBC does Jonathan Swift!

Honourable mention:
Soon I discovered that this cult thing is true...
H.P.Lovecraft is the Devil.
Cthulhu was a Priest before he became a God.

All of a sudden I found myself in love with the Void!
And there's only one thing left for me to do...
And that's Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
October: Fun with images!

Reason for all the comments: Oh, come on, a *JPG* that contains the full works of HP Lovecraft deserves comments.


November: Why coders must not write UIs

Reason for all the comments: THERE'S A "PRO MODE" BUTTON ON THAT WINDOW!


December: The New Yorker tells me that the crazies have gotten even crazier.

Reason for all the comments: Arguing over whether Judaism is fundamentally a delusional bronze-age cult or a delusional iron-age cult.

Honourable mention: A Slice Of Life - because everything is better with bacon.

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