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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When you have your "fact and theory" post ready, let me know and I will add it to the list at Genomicron. Larry has one on Sandwalk as well.
Yeah, I think you are an old man if you think they satirized "proposals from recent years" more than a decade ago.
That's just my paleontological perspective; 10 years is split second in the perspective of Deep Time. Yeah, that's the ticket...