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I wish Countdown had never gone off the air. We deserve to have our own prime-time unhinged-rant-fest just like the Fox News people do!

With those kinds of numbers, there's gonna be plenty of room for all three. Wow. Like... both of those charts have the ruling party winning by the kind of margins either of our major parties could only dream of, at least at the national level. Just try not to think too hard about why the Tories...

I had no idea Red vs. Blue was still going on. I assumed it died out around the same time Halo stopped mattering.

Same reason they do everything. Because they're hobbyist programmers and having to relearn an entire programming language (or whatever hoop they're making their users jump through) is their idea of a fun weekend, and they're incapable of understanding (or accepting) that it isn't everyone else's.

I'd sure like to test that theory.

Hmm, not quite a reincarnation as such, then. Would line up nicely with the "appearing as if he had a fatal wound but survived" description of the Beast, though. I also had no idea Nero had such a cult of personality. But I guess the more things change...

Huh. I didn't realize there was a way to reconcile the "Revelation is a prophecy of the distant future" and "Revelation is just describing the then-current reign of Nero" theories. Where does the "reincarnation of Nero" thing come from?

What's the context for the line about eating dirt? Because it sounds more like a line from some TV cartoon that looks like that drawing than something from a AAA game.

"Against the will of the people" does imply a level of illegitimacy beyond what the law provides for. If a leader had to resign as soon as their approval rating dropped below 50% no one would survive their first week in office.

Not like it'll stop 99% of them from getting reelected anyway; for most of them, the only reason to run campaign ads or do tours at all is to flex on everyone that they can afford to.

Desperate enough to admit he's too poor to pay his own fines.

So you're saying if we somehow managed to pass Medicare For All, we'd actually get to brag about having leap-frogged Canada in terms of how socialized our medicine is?

Wait, what the heck is this Pharmacare thing? I thought Canada just provided free drugs for everyone all the time.

So they're what we wish the Republicans were: just as obnoxious and uncooperative but utterly impotent because of it instead of managing to get everything they want handed to them by an opposition too cowardly to actually oppose anything.

Oh, and Aldi also exists in the US. (And yes, I checked; it's the same Aldi they have in the UK, and not the one they have in most of mainland Europe, although that also has a presence here under the Trader Joe's brand.) Definitely the cheapest way to buy a lot of things around here. I assumed...

"But we know from the senseless killings of Tyre Nichols, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, and many others that no amount of training or resources will stop police from killing Black and brown people. Nor will it ensure that police treat people with dignity and respect." OK, I guess we just give...

Funny thing, Barry McGuire's solo there was possibly also ripped off by Jean-Jacques Perrey (also responsible for the song from the "Going to the Store" viral video and being half of the duo who composed the theme from the Disney Electrical Parade) for "Brazilian Flower": But since we're on...

Just once I'd like to see a country put "nobody" on the ballot as an option and see just how big of a landslide it wins by.

No, it occurred to them. That's why they programmed the machines to error out and make you call the cashier over if it encounters a single item that won't scan on the first try. Because they had no idea how often that happens (because wasting the one second it takes to rescan a single item was...

I'm not surprised. Speaking from personal experience, the machines are so unreliable that most of the time you have to press the Call Cashier button and have them sort it out anyway. All they've succeeded in doing is making the few cashiers they have left work twice as hard.