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I can't say I'm truly distressed that the May Day diary has fallen into my lap, so perhaps the title is not apt on multiple levels. I am, it must be confessed, starting it with fewer than 90 minutes to go and no real topic at hand, which is par for the course not the best way to start a new month. Of course, these days I have a major project taking more and more of my time: 90 minutes seems like a huge block of time away from it, and it'll probably be the last time for a few weeks that I have that kind of time to spare.
Once again, I've employed the traditional, dignified Top Comments header above the fold. Looks good up there, doesn't it?
This being Sunday, it appears that others were spending their time doing various May Day or springlike things rather than than reporting on comments here at the Big Orange. The results of this defection weighting of priorities may be seen below.
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From commonmass:
This response by Kossack Roger Fox to webranding's diary What Is the Most Bizarre Thing You've Ever Eaten has to take the cake, so to speak.
From sardonyx (your semi-distressed Sunday diarist):
In FishOutofWater's diary New Fukushima Data: Evidence of Instability & Uncontrolled Criticality, HoundDog has an excellent, albeit quite long, comment.
growntoseed remembers seeing Ben Masel for the first time when Ben was running for congress in 1996, and Ben winning that debate handily, though he lost the election.
CornSyrupAwareness has an unusual comparison in Cedwyn's diary Nate Silver: Obama is no Republican.
Please add your own comment finds below!
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A reminder: We still hope top mojo will return once we figure out how to strongarm convince Comment Search to give us exactly what we need in a form that we can use. Which is more difficult and requires more hand-editing than it should be (or used to be).