Customs agents are real weirdos. One time I was going back to the US via ORD, and this bald guy working there noticed I had a package of fish shaped crackers. He immediately asked, "That's not MEAT, is it?" And I was like "no, it's candy." And he immediately replied "it's not MEAT CANDY, is it?!"

'Gary Johnson: "What is Aleppo?"'

That was the stupidest political 'controversy' ever. The question came out of nowhere with no context, and the interviewer pronounced it like it was two words, 'a leppo'.

Of course, Johnson's later reaction when a journalist asked him about it when walking down the street was devastating, but that's not what you're squirting about.

'Libertarians : "He's got my vote!"'

Anyone who votes Libertarian (or any other third party) knows it's effectively a protest vote, but it does help the party get more funding and recognition in the next cycle. If Democrats didn't spend so much time trashing Libertarians and Greens, they might have gotten more of their votes.

How are they going to enforce this, other than forcing users to provide a photo id when they sign up, and/or a credit card number in their name?

"I think it is time or abolish the Selective Service completely. Wonder if it will be on DOGE chopping block?"

I'd say there's 0.000000000% chance of that happening, at most.

Bill, how would you rank him, compared to other conmen? Including Bill Clinton.

I've been to Florida a couple of times, about 30 years apart. Really nice weather in January.

I've always seen the stupidest stories come out of Florida, as relating to both criminal and police behavior.

"Was it always full of drug addicts and degenerates..."

Interestingly, I've heard the same thing about Germany, by people from there. The grass is always greener, until one sees the fuller picture.

"should women be required to register for Selective Service"

The female presidential candidates want us to know they're still studying this issue, and they'll get back to us on that.

Dance, monkeys, dance

What's your plan to lower tuition prices? Throwing endless "free" money at the universities obviously hasn't worked.

"Who was spazzing out?"

The OP.

Like I said, the bill was just proposed. Not much point in spazzing out over something that will be amended many times before there's a final vote on it.

What percentage of medical students rely solely on federal loans anyway?

"There goes med school."

Med school is completely separate from undergraduate or graduate academic degrees.

As I'm sure you know.

I know this sounds like a wacky idea, but I actually read the article. A couple of good things about the bill are that it puts caps and the amounts students can borrow ($50,000 for undergrad, $100K for graduate) and doubles the amount of Pell grants for juniors and seniors who are on track to graduate.

The bill was just introduced, so I'm sure there'd be lots of modifications to it. People have always had the option to defer payments if they can show economic hardship.

"Remember then a Hershey bar was .10 cents?"

Nope. I can't even remember when they were 10 cents, much less 1/10th of a cent. You must be really old.

"Department of Ed"

Didn't know we had department dedicated to a fictional horse.

Ehh. I'm pretty sure there's already non-vulgar word for this phenomenon, but I can't think of it right now.

If we're talking about web services, I'd go with Googlefication.

I left the country a long time ago.

Insert "it was aliens" meme here.

It's weird how 2024 seemed to be a year of leftists desperately chasing after the 18-to-25-year-old demographic, bragging about how important it was, and predictably failing to get a ROI. Just like with the Disney+ reboot of Doctor Who.

Perhaps reflections from satellites?

"Biden could have picked a Black woman without loudly proclaiming to the world that it was a pre-req."

Agreed, that was dumb. Sadly, politics has always been a contest between dumb and dumber.

"Harris never really had a shot at the presidency, IMHO"

Biden seemed to think so too.

"between her sex, childlessness, color, and inflation/illegal immigrants"

She could have overcome all of those things and connected with more voters, but she failed.

"When Joe Biden announced he'd pick a woman of color as his running mate, he thought he was being progressive."

He was actually being shrewd in the short term, just like when Obama picked Mrs. Clinton for SecOState. Harris could have shown herself more than just that and earned people's votes like she said she was going to, but she failed to do that. That's on her, not Biden.

"Nazi's"

Nazi's what?