An Amendment to Be

I'm officially an old man; I intended to finish On the Origin of Phyla tonight and write about evolution as fact and theory, but instead I fell asleep at 7 PM after a trip to the grocery store. Lame... In lieu of anything substantial, then, here's one of my favorite Simpsons moments satirizing some of the super-conservative amendment proposals from recent years (Federal Marriage Amendment, I'm looking at you).


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