Most of this stuff didn’t happen (but, for instance, you can get night vision on a Mercedes S class, and there is the Chunnel) and they still haven’t made my flying fucking car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA

No one could have predicted …

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Am enough of a nerd to love this:

I call her a talentless fucking hack:

Lose a racist, gain a racist:

There is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote. You might not agree or like the idea but this country’s founders, otherwise held in the highest esteem for their understanding of human nature and its affect on political society, certainly took it seriously. Why is that? Were they so flawed in their political reckonings that they manhandled the most important aspect of a free society – the vote? If the vote counts for so much in a free and liberal democracy as we ‘know’ it today, why did they limit the vote so dramatically.

That’s David Yerushalmi folks, the new Derbyshire …. Then there’s this:

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Kevin Drum has trouble believing that conservatives in positions of power won’t do the right thing. Steve M:

If you’re Kevin Drum, you can’t really believe that powerful people who hold positions of great responsibility act like this. You can’t believe, for instance, that they’d saddle their own political primaries with a Sheldon Adelson just because freeing people like him to give unlimited cash pisses us off. Even now, they can’t believe the Supreme Court will overturn a law that reduces government spending, and that Republicans in Congress won’t replace it with something that addresses the country’s real health care problems in some serious way.

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Lasagna – started out vegetarian, but bought the wrong portobello mushrooms so some sausage went in. Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkaPFE39FPY

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