So that would be all Roma people? Really?

"The Roma people" — so that would be all of them? All of them participate in human trafficking?

Ok, these people have been the victim of violence, oppression, discrimination, you name it. They've had their homes burned down, they've been denied citizenship in countries they were born in, denied access to civil services and education in many countries, run off from every place they try to put down roots — might…

To you. Because, as a literalist, most humor flies over your head. Sad life.

Look up "but I have black friends." Or "I have Jewish friends." Then get back to me. Or don't - trying to explain humor to the humorless is too much work.

We may need them a lot longer than that.

I know. It's crazy they let women drive and have jobs, amirite?

So, you are unaware of what comedians do, it would seem? I would suggest you start slow - maybe some Bob Hope? Some Sinbad? You could then move on to Buster Keaton, and then maybe you could handle some modern comedians.

Seems appropriate. http://xkcd.com/896/

Some people have too much money. And they'll never beat Ms. Piggy wearing the for reals Hope Diamond for style points.

Fat+sugar+salt=licence to print money. You could put the pink goo-making machine out front and people would still stand in line for their fix.

I went to Tech, many, many years ago. A lot of very special people there, especially of the male variety. It's not the nerdy aspect you might expect, it's the fact that so many of them can say with fair accuracy that prior to coming to college, each one them probably only knew a few people who were their intellectual…

The danger is they would click and then proceed to breed. We have enough already.

I have a cat and a poor sense of smell. My better friends are probably tired of me asking if the house smells like cat, but I do worry about that.

Until my late 20s, the answer from me would have "anything but my fault." After that, I began to recognize there was only one consistent variable......

That actually makes sense. His essay does suggest something of a disconnect with reality.

Oh great, and I didn't even ask for the cat my Mom dropped off one day (it was me or the pound, as Stamps does not get along with Mom's dogs). Oh, well, it's a big world, and everybody has a deal-breaker or three.

At fist I thought he was talking about the rabbit as metaphor. Then I realized he talking about a live rabbit. Then I realized he was an even bigger idiot than I thought.

So caffeine addiction is a real thing? You don't say?

One of the reasons I stopped reading Clancy books (besides the right-wing nonsense) was the laughable way he wrote female characters. Yes, his male characters were hardly insightful depictions of human reality, but his women could not have been more cardboard if he'd tried. Makes me wonder if he ever actually spoke to…