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[Karnewarrior]

Ya rly.

Chris Rock.

AKA: Guy who likes to make black jokes but it's not racist because he's black.

Luckily for him, they're pretty funny black jokes.

[Darvi]

If that's the case, I think I've heard of the German equivalent. Close enough.

[Reelya]

I love comics like Chris Rock who don't sugar coat stuff and just say "everything's fucked up".

[SealyStar]

I love comics like Chris Rock who don't sugar coat stuff and just say "everything's fucked up".

Daniel Tosh can be like that too, especially in his stand-up bits.

Tosh.0, however, just isn't the same.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

A lot of comics lose their edge when they get their own shows. Demetri Martin's was alright, though.

[Flying Dice]

I haven't really been keeping up with the thread, so I'm not certain if this has been mentioned yet.

"I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
-Senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock, recently endorsed by Romney.

Lift foot, insert in mouth.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Old news.

[Flying Dice]

Four days isn't old if you aren't paying as much active attention as you should. 

[Reelya]

I find the "god did it" logic extremely convenient - conservative thing = God's will, liberal thing = man's meddling. Except in cases when a liberal thing happens without meddling - that's a sign God WANTS humans to meddle. Apparently God needs assistance in certain areas he can't manage alone.

Are they cherry picking much?

Who can say God didn't intend the abortion doctor to do his thing, if we're saying all these things are micro-managed by God (but only when it's convenient)

[Owlbread]

I did that test for your celebrity president and I got Hugh Heffner.

[palsch]

So this exists.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

So this exists.

Incredible. Then he describes what Romney will likely cause; just take out 'brains' 'zombie' and 'apocalypse' and you've got a straight shooting political commercial.

[mainiac]

Whedon how I love thee.

[Darvi]

I like the throwaway jab at Ayn Rand.

[palsch]

I like the throwaway jab at Ayn Rand.

Which reminds me; Obama did a Rolling Stone interview and said this;

Have you ever read Ayn Rand?
Sure.

What do you think Paul Ryan's obsession with her work would mean if he were vice president?
Well, you'd have to ask Paul Ryan what that means to him. Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we're only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we're considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity – that that's a pretty narrow vision. It's not one that, I think, describes what's best in America. Unfortunately, it does seem as if sometimes that vision of a "you're on your own" society has consumed a big chunk of the Republican Party.

Of course, that's not the Republican tradition. I made this point in the first debate. You look at Abraham Lincoln: He very much believed in self-sufficiency and self-reliance. He embodied it – that you work hard and you make it, that your efforts should take you as far as your dreams can take you. But he also understood that there's some things we do better together. That we make investments in our infrastructure and railroads and canals and land-grant colleges and the National Academy of Sciences, because that provides us all with an opportunity to fulfill our potential, and we'll all be better off as a consequence. He also had a sense of deep, profound empathy, a sense of the intrinsic worth of every individual, which led him to his opposition to slavery and ultimately to signing the Emancipation Proclamation. That view of life – as one in which we're all connected, as opposed to all isolated and looking out only for ourselves – that's a view that has made America great and allowed us to stitch together a sense of national identity out of all these different immigrant groups who have come here in waves throughout our history.