Nah, I picked up on the humor, acknowledged it, and chose to proceed seriously. This one's on me, homeslice.

I didn't want to have a Bush/Obama debate, I wanted to have a more interesting conversation about ethics and justice, but Dr J has turned out to be a less-than-stellar partner for something fun.

It has reduced a few costs, but our actual medical spending is still in an uncomfortable upswing, and the real-world consequences of the ACA in the long-term remain to be seen.

I had a lot of issues with H4, mostly because it felt like it was backtracking in a lot of ways, and maybe there's nothing Halo could do EXCEPT backtrack at this point, because the whole Master Chief arc was pretty much expended?

And there's a growing amount of evidence that Obamacare is a big, well-intended boondoggle. The numbers of people who now have a route for insurance is great, but all the compromises Dems made with Republicans may have just killed the leverage the bill was supposed to provide the American public.

You're projecting a lot of bullshit onto my statements, and I'd appreciate it if you stepped back, took a deep breath, and came back to this conversation like an adult who can handle his or her shit.

Aretha Hymenstein

Don't talk down to me, friend-o, I know perfectly well what Bush and his ilk did, and I know perfectly well that his wasn't the first ugly and pointless war in US history.

Any way you choose to measure corruption, evil, and stupidity, you'll find at least trace amounts in any Democratic presidency.

Obama can't do it because then every unseemly thing that he has himself ordered, and every unseemly thing someone else ordered while he was on watch, becomes fair game in a trial against him. I voted for Obama twice, and I'm not ashamed of that, but he isn't above all of the usual mess.

Salpinx Ovaria

Well, it was started by guys who mistook a generalization as an attack.

Menstrüs Von Kegels

Well, heavens to Betsy!

I dunno, I've never been the club or party type, so she definitely looks like the kind of person I've deliberately avoided in the past.

I don't know that I'd call it a GOOD plan, really, just the sort of thing that Vampires should have managed about three thousand years ago.

Hey, there are a lot of reasons to hate Reddit. Let's not box ourselves into just one.

Gosh, if only you could just ignore it, right? It's a shame that isn't an option.

Super interesting fact: Carl Sagan was curious about why the swastika appeared so commonly and reliably throughout many cultures that had no means of communication. He theorizes in his book 'Comet' that the symbol is celestial in origin; a comet with four out-gassing points around its nuclear equator and a…

Legal, sure, but not necessarily ethical. It isn't ethical to violate a person's very reasonable expectation of privacy in communication, even if a lot of other people do it first.