Was that itself a result of an extortion attempt? "Give me money or I'll release Monsters vs. Aliens."

Far, far, away, long time passing?

With that coming right after the digression into the rumors that Prince Phillip had died, I initially misinterpreted who "she" referred to.

Do you think Pastafarian is into wearing rubber dudes?

So does the "real" Colbert pronounce the "t" in "Colbert"?

It presumes that sucking cock is a subservient activity, and that D/s relationships between heads of state, especially when the sub is the head of your state, are bad.

Trump and Kirkman are outsiders in very different senses. Yes, Kirkman wasn't elected, and so he might not be politician (I'm not clear on what his backstory is), but he still had to be politically connected enough to be nominated, and politically competent enough to get through the confirmation. And by the time of…

You're ignoring my point. Is a US where the First Amendment is repealed harder to imagine one in which the federal government chooses textbooks? Besides which, I'm sure that when Brandeis used the word "education", he meant something broader than choosing textbooks.

W&G:gay people::Big Bang:nerds?

I'm kinda starting to wonder whether there's a rule that when you have two gay characters, one of them has to be played by a straight actor, and one by a gay one.

Just because you don't see my logic, doesn't mean I am acting in bad faith, and it is you who is acting in bad faith in saying so. Which level are you talking about? My logic applies to either. If the federal government can censor, why can it not educate?

You said "We can't do something that the rest of the free world manages to accomplish", not ""We can't do something that the rest of the free world might manage to accomplish, let's find out."

If you know someone who hates coffee, don't add it. But if someone doesn't like to drink coffee, that doesn't mean they won't like coffee flavoring. My feelings about coffee are similar to vanilla: it adds flavor, but I certainly don't have any inclination to simply drink it straight. The idea of drinking espresso is,…

Another issue: what sort of jurisdiction is Germany claiming? Are they expecting Facebook to block certain content for different countries? Or is Germany claiming the right to fine Facebook for allowing Americans to view content they don't like?

"This is quality trolling."

That's not really an argument against the point. If you trust the government to decide what people should believe, then doing it through education is better than censorship. If you don't trust the government, why are you allowing them to censor speech? By implicitly claiming that government in those states have a…

1. Have other countries solved the problem of fake news?
2. By adding the qualifier "the free world", you're excluding all the counter examples. "Hey, if we ignore all the cases where X didn't work, we find that X has a 100% success rate!" Or do you think it's the "free world" that's somehow "special"? Perhaps only…

So North Korea is not a dystopian hellscape? Do you think "There are hundreds of nuclear reactors that haven't melted down" is a comforting argument?

BLM has been quite successful at getting attention for themselves, which seems to be their primary goal.

To what? Ban political speech?