The problem with B5 was never the plotting or writing or continuity: it was the cast. I kept envisioning the auditions: "Worse actors! Bring me worse actors! Can't anyone find me some people who cannot act at all? I need worse actors! Ah! Bruce Boxleitner! Thank you, God!"

Wrong. A free market is a market with minimal regulations. No one save anarchists has ever advocated the repeal of laws against fraud, extortion, blackmail, or the enforcement of contracts. You have generalized a dislike of libertarians into a fantasy.

Brussels Sprouts are fucking delicious when they're fresh and prepared correctly.

Mighty cromulent of you.

No "health care system" is going to be able to overcome the human propensity to make unhealthy lifestyle choices unless it forces people to bear the costs of those choices themselves.

You were doing so well until you got here. Madness, I say. MADNESS!

Um, no. A "functional electronic device" is one for which its cost of repair = $0.