That is hilarious. Who's the artist?

If you asked someone 500 years ago to picture a perfect world, they'd have fallen short of what we have now. And we still have scarcity and people being dicks. Therefore, by induction....

Virtue rewarded at 5:00

Wanna check out the Federl budget and show us all exactly where those "billions of dollars" are coming from? You know, actual data.

Nothing. The only things of significance are altitude and latitude.

The United States is unique in the level of autonomy that the States have. In most other countries, subdivisions are just administrative districts, with all the important laws being made at the national level.

Growth - all growth, or more precisely, any economic model based on perpetual growth - is a Ponzi scheme. As soon as compound interest was devised, mathematicians realized it could not continue indefinitely. If you invested a penny at 2% per year in 1 AD, it would now be worth $ .01 x 1.02^2014 = $2.1 E+15. At $1500 a…

AI (and many others): Coney Island is just a hop, skip and jump from Manhattan.

So basically someone's re-invented the dum-dum bullet.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has a hilarious section on the problem with time travel. It's grammar:

I'm a Republican (nowadays a RINO) raised monolingual but now speak German, Spanish and Russian, and working on several others. Turn off Duck Dynasty, you lazy freeloaders. How many Americans died in Iraq and Afghanistan because of having to rely on local interpreters of dubious loyalty?

This is a mystery. Manning is as good as they come. You don't get into the Super Bowl by being mediocre. These guys are trained and know the game.

True. ScarJo lost her endorsement deal for a humanitarian outfit because SodaStream is manufactured in the West Bank on Palestinian land.

I capped a nearly empty water bottle on top of Mount Evans in Colorado (14,200 feet). By the time I got down to Denver it was definitely crunched. By the time I got home (elevation 600 feet) it was half its original volume.

The Green Bay Packers don't have cheerleaders. Basically the fans just didn't care. Occasionally they'll borrow local college cheerleaders.

I suspect he meant do #1 while simultaneously doing 2-9.

10. If you're driving a truck or SUV with high ground clearance on an unplowed street, stick to the beaten-down middle and make the peons in non-testosterone vehicles drive through the deep snow.

A partial explanation is that for fast-moving objects, like space ships in flight or even cars on the road, you don't actually see a lot of the detail. As long as the miniature has an acceptable level of detail, it seems real. If you catch a detail on one frame, your brain extrapolates it to the rest.

Whippoorwills and nighthawks do, too. I once spent a lot of time in an area where there were lots of them. Once I figured out the scam, I used it to find the nests. See, if you ignore the "wounded" adult and head in the opposite direction, they'll fly around to where you can see them and try again. As long as they…

Forrest Gump would be trivial now but it was a tour de force in 1994.