h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You've got the Galactic Federation and the United federation, both only take and neither can give The Solar System's populous don't REALLY have say, they are there only to payout for no return "ever"

And contracting your space shuttle service to Harry Mudd makes sense *how*?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/30/no-deal-brexit-ferry-company-owns-no-ships-and-has-never-run-ferry-service

Special? More like specious!

Post 2 - I saw that the word "backpockets" came to mind

Their hovercrafts will be full of eels.

just another gripe for the opposition parties

I still say! Guy Fawkes had the best idea but they caught him

"Having just the vision's no solution.
Everything depends on execution."
--Stephen Sondheim

Guy Fawkes was definitely executed.

Had the Darwin Award existed at the time, he would surely have been a leading contender for it. Consider: He should have known or suspected that the cellar under the House of Lords would be searched the night before the planned explosion. 36 barrels of gunpowder would have been hard to conceal. Maybe it was a plan that deserved to fail?

Considering he would have prevented the Authorised Version of the Bible, and we might have got stuck with Calvin's footnotes, I'd say there may have been divine intervention involved.

Divine, eh?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001145/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

blaggard's etc became anarchists and then moved to terrorists through time - Whatever "they" are called, they still only want their own way - no matter the cost of any life.
unlike ants etc, humans will never conform to a true social society working as one for the good of all

I think you've come around to what the alien anthropologist was saying, Prof.

This cartoon was sort of a tribute to the late and much missed Oliver Sacks, by the way.

Working as one for the good of all? I think the people in Russia thought they were doing that for 70 years. Likewise many of the Japanese who were willing to die for the Emperor in the 1930s and 1940s.

Democracies are considerably messier than that. Issues have to be discussed and discussed and discussed. Outsiders may think that this is a sign of disharmony ( which, granted, it can sometimes be), but it is by identifying all the issues that need solutions that a society can begin to work on them.

Democracy can result in some bad moves from time to time, but there seems to be longterm progress, even if it sometimes seems scant.

Dmitri It might take a long journey, but I'll get there.

Long Jir Ni comes from China, doesn't he?