four government astronauts?

So will there be non-goverment astronuts?

I guess you missed the memo from SCOTUS - same sex marriage is legal now.

And there's no one there to raise them if you didn't
And all this science, I don't understand
It's just my job, five days a week

"What..like MSNBC?"

I think Microsoft sold their share of MSNBC to NBC (Universal)

If FaceBook and Twitter went down, productivity would increase...

Since there isn't enough staff to cover your absence.

I'm not feeling the best tonight myself
But there are only 4 aides and 2 nurses listed on the online schedule and another one of the PM crew working half the NOC shift
full staff for nights is 1 nurses and 7 aides or 1 nurse and 8 aides

Why do robots need tails anyway?

or as the Rocket Man himself said:
  It's July but it's cold as Christmas In the middle of the year.

Its shark week

In 1985 I bought a "Fat" Mac for NZ$10K
(The kiwi $ was worth about 44cents US at the time)

New Chicago? That was a planet featured at the beginning of "The Mote in God's Eye" (Niven/Pournelle)

"men [are] from Mars and women from Venusâ"and that each gender is acclimated to its own planet[...]"

and relationship books are from Uranus

If we can see an asteroid with the naked eye it might be time to duck.
Its almost certainly too late to call B ruce Willis

"I typically gain 20 lbs over the winter, then lose it over the summer"

I spose it depends where you live.

" plus rain and crappy weather."

Here it doesn't rain in the winter, its too cold for that.
I'd much rather be outside in the winter time, with a temperature of below 255K than in the summer when its above 300 and 100% humidity

Back when I was in school, parent=teacher meetings were always in the evenings so that both parents could attend. Of course this was long. long ago (early seventies), in a country 8000 miles away