Along similar lines, I highly recommend Robert Reich's superb documentary Inequality For All, available on Netflix streaming.

Hungry people + broken machinery does not a happy ending make.

Instead of robots, you could use clones....I hear the Sonmi-451 model is particularly good at service jobs.

I've always favored the King's Backhand.

the family that throws bricks together, sticks together...

I definitely don't think diet soda should be used as a weight loss aid, but a lot of the claims people make about it are completely unfounded. It does not cause insulin spikes. It does not cause weight gain (although it might be CORRELATED with it). There is no evidence that shows it causes cancer either.

That's true, it completely fails to account for stones from mosques, temples, monasteries and shrines!

You appear to think that scientists are the same as technicians. That is, people who are hired to solve a particular problem and either do it or don't. If they don't solve it to the satisfaction of their employers, they should be fired. The employers might want a particular political slant on the solution, which…

Hey, Sudanese courts!

sure, sure....but doncha think he pocketed a few Shekels when he upturned

Not all the scientists! Just the inconvenient ones!

'The Scrunchie Chronicles: 112 Countries and It's Still All about My Hair.'"

There is a Woodland-Themed Chain of Coffee Shops? I need to know more about this magical place.

More likely that she doesn't see the faces of wait staff (because to do so would make it harder to leave a meager tip).

Back when I was working at the movie theater I had something like this happen. A man came up to buy a ticket to some new indie documentary and asked me if I knew what it was about. I hadn't had a chance to look at the description and when I told him he replied it was about evolution. I said that sounded cool, and that…

I'm glad all of the Chinese have been saved, that's a load off my worry plate.

People who give out Jesus pamphlets instead of tips will always stand out in my mind.

He has said in numerous interviews that spending 4 years making Gravity burned him out, and he wants to take a break from VFX driven films. The fact that he made Gravity is the specific reason why he wouldn't want to do this.

Looking at some of these buildings, you can kind of see why Tetris was developed in Russia and not some place else.