I know you wank to the Daily Show too...
This isn't really political but if it's better fit for political_wank, please say so and I will move it.

It's been pretty quiet on LJ's The Daily Show community for a while now. Other than the usual and unanimous outrage over the Conservative/Right-Wing Transgression of the Week. Until carl_sagan posts an entry entitled: I am a big fan and no, I am not trying to start shit.... You know the God of wank has graced us with his presence.

A while ago, Jon Stewart made some less than endearing comments about the NASA's effort on Mars. Quote: "...spent hundreds of millions of dollars to discover something that we can get in the bathroom sink" and "Three billion dollars and they discovered dirt?”

People agree or disagree as they will. Some people are quick to note it's a joke. OP counters with "there are consequences."

Others decide their time is better spent debating how the millions/billions of dollars pumped into the space system can be used for health care and other social problems. The OP responds with: how dare they mock "the last humanistic endeavors this government still finances". He might want to check dictionary.com for the meaning of humanistic...

The best and longest comment thread is when courtney_beth and mysticfeline2 point out the fact the OP spelled Jon wrong. Dictionary.com links are thrown about. OP refuses to correct his misspelling in the post and as a TA at Cornell, he would "rather have a brilliant paper that misspells a name then a mediocre paper with perfect orthography applied to all names". Here I thought colleges liked to have both. Hear that? Forget proof-reading!

It's 141 comments and the OP continues to reply to every single comment.

Lesson to learn? Nothing's sacred. I knew there was a reason I liked that show.