Remember how the revamped conservative movement (spearheaded by that dynamic new grassroots organization called the Tea Party) was going to lay off the culture wars and focus on fiscal issues?

This is begging for some "improv everywhere"-style trolling at the cafe.

"They are both public school teachers and belong to teacher's unions, so they posting shit 24/7 about that issue."

That's upper-middle-class new york in a nutshell, though. My personal barometer of how segregated NYC is is how many black kids are enrolled at Stuyvesant (i.e. almost none.)

They've got a pretty large (and, FWIW, diverse) staff and could easily have accomplished more than one thing in an intermission. AND disagreements between patrons at the opera are actually pretty frequent so it's not like this was an unusual problem for them. Sounds like she just picked a dickhead to talk to.

I don't know how she's supposed to be aware of what actually happened. She's facing away from the accident and it doesn't make that much noise. As far as she's concerned it could be somebody knocking over a luggage cart or some equally benign thing.

I am not convinced he asked them if they wanted change in a way that was clear enough for these idiots to understand, but it really doesn't matter. If you hand someone surplus cash in a tipping situation, and don't have the intestinal fortitude to specify that you want some of it back or otherwise clarify what the…

The thing I want most in life is software that can manage a queue of streaming internet content and pre-buffer the NEXT thing in the queue when it has the opportunity.

This is true. Also, I find that once I get up there the nerves always go away, and I can feel that everything is going to be fine. So, I just remember that release and look forward to it.

Sure, but there might be lots of things, and nothing can "disprove" these possibilities. (Your entire life's experience might be the extensive dream of some alien creature, for example. The brain could secretly run on some force that physics has not discovered and this is the "soul." Dolphins could actually be…

Erm, doesn't the very fact that you can observe the self-serving nature of religion strongly suggest that God probably doesn't exist? You think your flavor of belief is somehow the exception to this tendency?

Eh, it's pretty safe to say that Evangelical Protestantism is pretty thoroughly terrible. It's basically hyperpartisan right-wing politics masquerading as religion anyway.

"There's being a Christian, and there's being an Asshole."

Apparently "there is no such thing as a digital antenna." Digital signals travel on the same VHF and UHF frequencies that old-school broadcasts did. The only thing you need in your new-fangled gear is the right coverage of both bands (whereas old-school TVs would split them between two antennas.)

Apparently "there is no such thing as a digital antenna." Digital signals travel on the same VHF and UHF…

I got news for you buddy - you are in the middle of a massive historical conflict that affects millions of people, which influences how you and everybody else thinks on a deep psychological level. You can't fucking "win."

... the Arabs that believe in Jewish conspiracies are like the Americans that are in the Tea Party.

The show is written by many people and they don't have some kind of official platform document for every single topic. It is quite plausible that the person who wrote this joke had a completely different attitude towards Cosby that whoever wrote those other bits, none of which are essential to the show. To look at a…

This is not the service my loins are craving.

Fucking Belgium, a superficial hipster nation if ever there was one.

This is one reason why personal handguns are such a great tool for scumbags and cowards. These days every spectacular act of violence seems to end with the perp using this escape hatch to avoid punishment for his actions - they obviously plan it, and the crime is a suicide that takes other people with them.