I make a serious effort to be restrained and attempt to express myself in a calm manner. But here...

Grrr I had a great deal more to say but everything I wrote and erased would have just been censored by the CoC anyway. Damn, god damn these vermin. 

I've been rather unsure on this one, all the problems "pranksters" are causing shinning high powered lasers into cockpits has been on my mind. However the point you make here is a pretty powerful one to me, the behavior  is the problem making the law about the technology is certainly the worst type of solution.

Not in Texas:

Texas bans (most) private drone use, fearing spying

The Buffoon of the Week is always someone voted into office, it's rather my point and basically I start keeping an eye out for new winners right after picking the latest one.

Mulling over setting up tournament brackets for a big annual showdown.

Well as Mrs. Clinton likes to state, "It takes a village". None of these buffoons was born into office.

Then you must reach farther, in the end it is your choice.

This is not foolishness. There is a lesson here, Western Civ is not the whole world. There are billions born into a different world, understand this.

Smart fellow, but guess he just wasn't man enough for the job. Caviar, is there any other food in existence that screams pomposity so well? Let me enjoy my modest bowl of cereal in peace. 

Join us! Leave the Captain Crunch and Fruit Loops to the weak-kneed, take the Grape-Nuts challenge friend!  

Not a unique issue to anime, it's a continual argument where critics debate the means and not the message. Is a book superior to a television series? Is a play always superior to a movie? Discussions about anime by and large fall in to this same category. 

For critics I simply say, just go watch anything by Miyazaki and you will fall in love. 

For you Sabrdance, GitS should have been on your list. If one wonders how technology may change the face of humanity, for good or ill,  there is no better drama where that question is posed. 

One hopes. 

Can't agree with that. When it comes to grape-nuts you have to take the bull by the horns and dive right in, no waiting for chewiness. 

On special occasions it is acceptable to add slices of banana to the bowl, that and no more. Never sugar. 

Yet does anyone listen? Snowden is a childish fool yet Drake brought this to light years ago in the proper fashion and paid the price for it, a high price indeed. What does it take for adolescent citizenry to listen I wonder. 

I oft wonder on this. Cromwell was no one to emulate but see who he was dealing with. If this man had simply stepped aside and let Parliament continue as it was would that truly be such a superior outcome to his rule?

True words. A government that cannot defend the security of the citizenry  is no government at all. Leaders that cannot manage this basic function are no leaders at all, just one more band of warlords demanding tribute.  

Best work out your choppers will ever get, a few weeks of grape-nuts for breakfast you're ready to chew through a steel bar.