By The Numbers - part the forty sixth

Well, I suppose I should 'fess up: there's only one show on HBO that I care about, that's John Oliver late Sunday night. And, due to the strike, there wasn't much of John for a while, thus when he returned it was only a few weeks, then went to hiatus. Last night was the Grand Return. And, of course, he ended the episode with a bang.

The late-night host John Oliver has offered to pay Clarence Thomas $1m annually — as well as give him a $2m tour bus — if the Republican judge resigns from the US supreme court.

Color me blown away. Takes that New Zealand bird mugging up a notch or two.

The very last minute or two of the show. He made it a point of telling us, including Uncle Clarence if he's watching, that the dough is Oliver's not HBO's. Now, naturally, there's a (just near?) 0% chance that Oliver will have to cough up the dough. Oliver's point, naturally, is that the hypocrisy of Uncle Clarence's public statements about just being a Regular Joe Sixpack who prefers to hang out with other Regular Joe Sixpacks rather than The Elites is tangible. As Oliver showed, Uncle Clarence early on declared that his goal was "to be rich". Naturally, Uncle Clarence's cabal of billionaires will now just front (well, more likely back-door) him the cool $1,000,000, lest his greed overtake his animus for the hoi-polloi, and stall their plan for MARF^™(party like it's 1829). No one needs no education to walk behind a horse-plow and make lots of babies!! We still gots lots of Indians out West to kill!