The article is a good idea but I wish it had been more comprehensive. You skip right past the adventure of trying all the fries from various venues and jump right to the conclusion. We have no idea how you reached this conclusion, how large was your sample, how long this process took, etc. This degrades the article for me quite a lot. What I expected was the adventure - riding along on the quest for the perfect fry. The flat tire you got outside of one neighborhood and the hole-in-the-wall diner you found while waiting for the tow truck driver. The attempt to make the perfect fry at home, a survey of respondents about what is, in fact, the generally accepted ideal fry - that sort of thing.

I suppose that's the sort of disassociation required if you're to do commission work to which you thereafter hold no claim. I envy his ability to let it go. Also, I don't know whether it was his legal responsibility to determine who owned the wall - it would seem that it would have fallen to him - but the shop owner next door should not have paid him to do it before asking... law or otherwise. She knew it was not her wall so that should have wrapped it up.

You've lost me. I don't see how having a modicum of carry-on accessories can prevent one's eating of sold-out-halfway-through-the-day, drving-from-Rio-Linda-to-get-some cupcakes. Cupcakes are, after all, superior to cake in that their proportions are delicately balanced and personalized. You must have another reason you're not stating - which is fine, understand... but don't feed me this line about the camera bag. It doesn't even make any sense. We want to eat this cupcake vicariously and you've left us on the side of the bed, crying. (At anonymous thumbs down: obviously this was humor)

Love that liberal tolerance of Christians. Don't bother saying you only mean "right-wing religious crackpots" since we all know that's just your word for Christians. I think the AZ law was fine, but that's totally irrelevant. Our city government should stick to city issues... as if we didn't have enough of those to keep them busy. I couldn't force myself to agree more with Ahsan Awan's point above.

Toughenup makes a point I hadn't considered with regard to CPS, shrouded as my judgement is by the fact that I hate them, a lot. This is the same problem I have with "hate crimes" legislation - there is no need to reclassify crimes into boutique, tendy new crimes. Simply prosecute the actual crime and make the punishment stick.