Laisse-faire capitalists have historically co-opted the reins of government to create artificial burdens to advance their own interests . Someone upthread tried to differentiate between "capitalism" and "crony capitalism". There is no differentiation in the real world.

Your idea of capitalism exists in a bubble devoid of human nature.

One of the most basic misunderstandings of debt is that debt is automatically bad. The reason the U.S. has a "high" national debt is because foreign entities and the American people (foreign interests actually account for the minority of debt) realize investing in the U.S. is one of the safest investments possible,…

Because the only measure of a culture's worth is its debt per capita.

It probably is something of a desire to create a tax loss while simultaneously spending the money. You could drive around in a limo or fly around in a private jet on press junkets and eat lobster for every meal and claim it's a cost of production, after all.

Yeah the "jokes" in the preview of the one that these two other guys did for Rifftrax seemed pretty forced.

There is a Rifftrax but not by the Rifftrax guys, by two other guys. But you can find it on the Rifftrax website.

Well, according to my brother in Seattle, his cable company simply doesn't give him the east coast channels of things. I always wondered why I got both here on the east coast, but I guess they simply don't care and it's an amenity to be able to watch stuff you missed three hours ago.

"(also couldn't they just melt their chains off?)"

That Mance Rayder theory is inferior to my Mance Rayder theory, which is that Mance Rayder is Gerion Lannister.

Please create an analogy between Vishnu having the entire world in his mouth and Raistlin's ascendance to total rule over the universe. Deliver this analogy through an interpretive dance.

This seems like the opposite of Disney and MGM. Most of the time Chip & Dale choose to fuck with Donald Duck, instigating the fight. The same with Jerry, who, let's face it, is a thief and a squatter.

Reading the synopsis on Wikipedia, it's immensely convoluted. I quit way before they got to that point, I think.

Yeah, I never quite got to whatever book it is where he time-travels and kills Takhisis at her weakest point, though I'd heard enough from my friends about it. That must have been the high point of the character, though, right? Ascending to godhood.

Heeere they come to snuff the Rooseter, awwwww yeeaaaahhhhhhaahhhaaahh you know he ain't gonna diiiiiiieeee, ai, ai, ai, you know he ain't goooonnna diiiieee…

Stuck on Death Gate 2. Need to dislodge reading block and get back to it.

I think also, at least with the books, there is an old saying that the 'Wheels of God (justice) grind slowly, but they grind fine." We are slowly seeing the repercussions of all the evil deeds committed by various characters slowly, every so slowly, coming back to haunt them.

Yeah, when do we get to the healing? I don't think she means the literal magical healing that happens to some characters, either…

X-Men is good.

I wlll forever refer to it as The Big Cancer Summertime Fun Lovey Dovey Movie henceforth.