Still love this song, always and forever.

Absolutely. Half his tweets are calls for violence/murder against this woman. He's inciting violence with his words but then claims it's "open season" on white people? Please. If Zimmerman proved anything, it's that shooting a black person in this country is what has no repercussions, particularly if that person is…

It's not enough to call this guy crazy / write him off as "mentally unstable". His hate speech is sparking even more vile, horrifying hate speech amongst his fans, and for that he needs to be held accountable. Countless people are sending him messages of support, some even going as far as to say that blacks are a…

5:1 in favor

You're obviously dumb as hell. Please tell us where you live and we will glady find out how much money New York has specifically given to your backwards ass place of residence in taxes. In all likelihood, NYC will be paying for this themselves because we have the money.

In both cities, once you've decided that it's not acceptable social policy to simply abandon cities near rising shorelines, the clear best option is to build large seawalls rather than "not mess with mother nature" by letting all its most ferocious storms lap at your buildings.

Odds on your state being a net taker from the rest of us in tax revenue?

sorry about your flyover state inadequacy complex

When people go into fix-it mode, it's perceived as:

It's not just cheering up crap, some people think that by making an observation pertaining to a perceived flaw in another persons demeanor or actions they will give that person an epiphany and they will magically do what the asshat thinks is appropriate.

Telling someone to cheer up without addressing the underlying issues is idiotic. Emotions are typically reactionary, there is a reason someone is happy or sad and ignoring that which has altered a person's mood is likely to produce a negative response. As a teenager I had to hold myself back from punching anyone who…

It is the pinnacle of rude arrogance to tell someone how they should feel.

what passes for comedy on io9 is always horrendous. go read some gawker comments, come back and try again.

How do you know what the fuck this is?

Why did they look at self esteem? It's entirely possible that the people with lower self esteem had more actual problems, and a cheer up type comment to someone who is facing serious obstacles is pretty insulting. I'm not sure "self-esteem" is the real issue, here.

Ah, I wondered about that (given the gazelle horns), but couldn't be sure. I assume the other skull-lyre in their catalog has a similar origin. Now I'm wondering what the context for these things were. Some ceremonial use, or just more horrors that came out the colonial nightmare of 19th century Central Africa?

Crazy, right? From the The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889.

This is something from the 19th century? Jeez.