John Oliver, you missed a great chance to contradict Sen. Paul--it's what you're paid for!

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Tuesday August 13, 2013 · 7:12 PM PDT

2013/08/13 · 19:12

Last night (August 12, 2013) on The Daily Show, the guest was Senator Ron Paul, R-KY, who had a lot to say about Obamacare" And almost all of it was wrong. Unfortunately, John Oliver, the summer host, let his chance slip by.

Senator Paul is an eye doctor; I too am a medical doctor, in family practice, and I call him out for poor understanding of economics and the realities of the business of his own profession. Reflex hammers at 20 paces.

More below.

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Tuesday July 23, 2013 · 3:24 PM PDT

2013/07/23 · 15:24

After 9/11, we were exhorted to sing "God bless America" at every opportunity, especially at sporting events, and mainly especially at Major League Baseball games. It's been almost a dozen years and we're still doing it.

There are good and cogent reasons not to have done so in the first place, and also to stop doing it now. Let's explore the world of patriotic songs and national protocols, below the fold.

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Sunday March 03, 2013 · 4:01 PM PST

2013/03/03 · 16:01

My wife (black) and I (white) married January 19, 2013, having successfully passed the marriage equality law in Washington State--but that's another diary. We didn't take a full honeymoon but went to a resort-casino hotel not a hundred miles away for a two-night stay. Quiet, good food, she had a massage, and I won enough at blackjack to cover most of the trip--but that is yet another diary.

The first day she was up early (I am NOT a morning person) and after her walk she decided to go to the nearest town ten miles away for some antiquing. Not long after she entered a store, a county sheriff's car pulled up and two deputies got out.

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Friday January 18, 2013 · 6:00 AM PST

2013/01/18 · 06:00

So some folks are claiming that the shooting in connecticut was staged. Some folks are claiming that Hurricane Sandy's swath of destruction was created by a conspiracy. Meanwhile, some folks are claiming that any attempt to control citizens' access to guns is the next step to a fascist regime.

Yankee ingenuity triupmhs! Let's combine these problems and form a single solution to both. Follow me below the squiggle.

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Tuesday November 27, 2012 · 3:53 PM PST

2012/11/27 · 15:53

Some Texans seem to have the idea that their Republican Southern Strategy hold on state politics may disappear in the near future because of increasing numbers of immigrants (particularly Hispanic) and more poor people who tend to vote for Democrats, and fewers elderly white rural Republican voters as old folks die and more country folk move to cities and suburbs. So follow me into a possible future after Texas declares its independence (below the fold).

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178 votes Show Results

If Texas secedes, I would be:

178 votes Vote Now!

If Texas secedes, I would be:

ecstatic

73 votes

happy

15 votes

So what?

30 votes

unhappy

11 votes

desolate

10 votes

Where is Texas anyway?

14 votes

No comprende ingles

25 votes

Ryan with the sound off

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Thursday August 30, 2012 · 11:34 AM PDT

2012/08/30 · 11:34

I watched the Republican Convention last night, channel surfing to ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS, with the sound off. Gives a quiet, clear perspective on what a speaker thinks about what he/she says.

More downfield.

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Thursday August 23, 2012 · 2:34 PM PDT

2012/08/23 · 14:34

Snark alert!! Major snark coming up. You can't see my expression as I type, so I'm letting you know now. I'm white and my fiancee is black so don't for a minute think I'm some kind of stealth KKK member or White Supremacist.

Don't say you weren't warned, and now let's go below the fold.

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45 votes Show Results

I have dated out of my race:

45 votes Vote Now!

I have dated out of my race:

Never

8 votes

Rarely

5 votes

Occasionally

7 votes

Sometimes

10 votes

Often

8 votes

Always

2 votes

I don't pay attention to race

5 votes

Harry Harrison RIP Bill the Galactic Hero

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Tuesday August 21, 2012 · 3:38 PM PDT

2012/08/21 · 15:38

The science fiction writer Harry Harrison died last week in Ireland. He was born in 1925. During his career he wrote Make Room! Make Room! which was the story basis for Soylent Green, and also the Stainless Steel Rat series and the Deathworld series. However, I consider his greatest work to be Bill: The Galactic Hero, of which one Nam vet said it was the only true book about the military.

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Saturday April 14, 2012 · 2:01 PM PDT

2012/04/14 · 14:01

This is snark. Repeat, this is snark! Snark alert!!

I know you can't see my facial expression as I type.

Anyway, a compromise on the Health Care Act in the spirit of Jonathan Swift.

Completely voluntary health care insurance. But-- (see below)

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Saturday March 24, 2012 · 11:43 AM PDT

2012/03/24 · 11:43

So I stole the idea from Letterman, but here are the top 10:

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95 votes Show Results

The first thing I look at on a woman is:

95 votes Vote Now!

The first thing I look at on a woman is:

Hair

8 votes

Eyes

20 votes

Smile

19 votes

Neck

0 votes

Chest

4 votes

Waist

2 votes

Hips

1 vote

Butt

16 votes

Legs

5 votes

Ankles

1 vote

Feet

7 votes

Ring finger

4 votes

Clothing

2 votes

Brain

4 votes

Hands

2 votes

I cannot marry my beloved

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Friday March 23, 2012 · 12:06 PM PDT

2012/03/23 · 12:06

During the history of the English-speaking world I would not have been able to marry the woman I love, nor can I today. One of us would have been the wrong religion, the wrong race, or . . . well, see below.

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Wednesday December 21, 2011 · 11:24 AM PST

2011/12/21 · 11:24

Coffeyhead!! He was a villain in Dick Tracy around 1948, a drug smuggler and killer. Note the first panel in this reproduction of a Sunday strip:

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