Libertarians might be the stupidest, most naive people on earth.

I know, right? As much as I love my country, it drives me nuts how parochial most of us are, & how clueless that makes us when it comes to seeing how our own politicians are picking up tricks from the US on how to screw us over. The one upside of Trump is that he's serving as the Horrible Example of how bad a country…

This is also true in Australia, hence Jim's incredulity. And that's despite our Wingnut arseholes constantly trying to ruin our healthcare system, & sell people on private cover.

'Failed'? Uh, I hate to break this to you, but the guy has gone from being a stand-up comedian to having his own national TV show. What job do *you* have that makes you so much more successful than him?

FACT!!1!!!1!

For extremely small values of 'work', sure.

Thanks! I was just wondering the same thing.

It is absolutely a very big no no. It'd be easier for a political party to get away with proposing to mulch refugee children into fertiliser than to mess with Medicare.

Indeed. Hearing it described as 'insurance' is weird. I guess that 'healthcare' is such an alien concept to an American audience that it needed to be translated to keep from confusing people?

Being an Aussie myself, I was expecting his admittedly extremely offensive brand of humour to be neutered for American TV, so I've been very pleasantly surprised that it hasn't been. And he's doing a way better job of making the solo talk-show format entertaining than Colbert is, at least so far.

Oh please. If you're so convinced that they're breaking the law, go ahead & call the cops, you sad little piss-baby.

Actually, the interrobang: '‽' is indeed a standard punctuation symbol; sure, it's an obscure one, but official nonetheless.

Now I'm imagining a fly bumbling in when he's being scanned into the CPU.

So what? It's a meta reference; it's completely okay for the writers to contrive an excuse.

Oh damn. How the HELL did I not spot that? And I've been a Troper for years.
Well spotted, man.

I returned from visiting Beijing with a wad nearly that thick - I'd been shockingly naive about how far a dollar stretches there, & had changed too much money - & it was worth less than $200. So yeah. Looks impressive as hell though.

I've just read it, & yow, he sure has the claws out.

Shadow was instilling doubt in his mind that he was still strong enough to kill Shadow with a single blow.

My understanding is that the sole excuse for linking Christ to Easter is that Easter is a spring festival that celebrates rebirth & fertility - hence eggs & rabbits - & as such, also represents the rebirth of Christ.

The one you made in your previous comment: