Reality.

I apologize, I was pansy coating my fucks.

Sorry, but sometimes Facebook makes my penis fall off.

Forget the Moon, who knew there was actually an inner Mongolia ?

It's a long way to the cafeteria.

Khrushchev saw the writing on the bathroom wall...

Right. They don't really care about democracy, they just want to know how you vote, when and if you vote, so that they can sell that information in advance of you voting in order to render your vote less meaningful on election day. Your "vote" is sold as poling data before the vote is ever cast....this will make hanging chads or voting privacy irrelevant. F*ck Facebook, f*cking f*ckfaced f*ckers.

In post soviet space race, space debris spies on you!

....or darts.

Right. Existential malwariness.

In fairness, I think the sarcasm was encrypted.

...Or how about ROBOCOPS ?

Then we could bust them for ogling pictures of electric can openers and for "vibrating while on duty."

Yeah, too bad he didn't' do the "Geraldo" show instead ...they would've angrily tossed chairs at each other.

Only after he sells 200 Million Beers at $10 each....

...at least 120 minutes.

...Merge, downsize, split the stock and/or split the business, rinse, lather, repeat. Corporations are in constant motion and adjustment of their books in order to manage the market, the labor costs, the tax laws, SEC, and the international equities market. All is a hedge on a future that is profitable to a select few, but it impacts all of us. It seems that the interests of these large corporations cause a great deal of uncertainty for their employees and the market in order to be competitive. It was a lot simpler when HP made money by having a superior, high value, affordable product . Now that is no longer the focus because of the complexity of our laws and the incentives offered to a select few who benefit more from a dose of chaos and uncertainty and losses. Especially loss of labor costs whenever it suits them.

780,000 Officers is just the tip of the industry when you also consider all of the criminal courts and related services, the prisons and jails managed at municipal, county, state, and federal levels, the border patrol, cyber-security, tsa, dea, fbi, atf, related intelligence resources, the list goes on and on and on. In today's economy this is one of the biggest sectors of the domestic economy when you tally it all up. And Its is not expected to turn a profit, like most other jobs. Most enterprise in America that employs people is supposed to be profitable. Perhaps expecting profit in all other sectors of the economy, except criminal justice, is the real reason why its getting so bloated. Perhaps if the public was as willing to spend a dollar on education for every ten dollars they waste on locking up 1% of the adult population, there wouldn't be a need to criminalize so many in order to create jobs for others. Fear and ignorance distort the public discourse and lead to poor decisions and public policy. Perhaps we are a long way from evolving out of this short coming. But it would be great if common sense would just overwhelm the populous and we could find better ways to live our lives together, share prosperity, and accept a more peaceful narrative. But that would be boring, I guess, so let's avoid that at all cost.