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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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It should be Snoop Dogg telling his history class that they've finished covering the medieval period and it's now dismissed for the day.

I remember getting into a very slight debate with someone who complained that the History Channel wasn't the History Channel because of Modern Marvels. And I was like: that's the only good thing about the channel. It takes an object, talks about it's development, shows how it's made now, then talks about its potential

Have we at least been working on a probe with a nucleonic beam to transfer memories of humanity to an unwitting starship captain in the future?

It also doesn't do anything to absolve him of the accusation that Trump campaign members at least were open to working with Russian government affiliates to win. Instead it just makes him look gullible and/or stupid for taking the meeting.

Treason is never the answer in these issues.

Hannity being upset at the (completely absurd) possibility of sting operations by the Democrats is hilarious, considering his support for James O'Keefe and Project Veritas. I don't remember him absolving anyone in those videos for their behavior because it was a sting operation.

Lie well

All across the country, political science majors are going to start giving up on those law school apps and campaign internships, and start focusing their attention on bulking up for their WWE audition reels.

"And that little boy, whom nobody liked, grew up to be…Roy Cohn!"

FXX being the all Simpsons network has really been helpful for filling in the gaps that exist from being too young to watch the Golden Era.

It seems to me that Kellyanne typically makes appearances when Team Trump has done something highly stupid. She disappeared for March/April (when SNL did that Where in the World skit) because they were Gorsuching and wheeling and dealing on the ACHA. Although that's a terrible bill and was off to a rocky start,

Or they disagree with those opinions and will tend to make fun of them, this being a liberal leaning site and all.

Life is too short to wait around for others' idea of the right time to do things that make you happy. And at any rate, so much can change within the course of year in somebody's life that a short period to one person seems like an eon to another.

If there's one thing we know about fan-shipping, it's that people will insist there's a relationship should or does exist based on little to nothing other than a connection between characters. It especially seems likely because people are naturally going to think that same-sex relationships happen in the universe, and

Attempting to incorporate lands in peoples into a unified country is called assimilation, and was the goal of the French colonial empire.

While I knew he would suck as President, one of the things that worried me most about Trump is that his dumb-ass kids are now going to be involved in politics for the next 40 years, especially if he wins. I mean there's Don Jr's love of alt-right conspiracies, there's Eric's idiotic sycophanticism, and Ivanka's "I'm a

Sure you are. You said we control things because we have no choice. That sounds better than choosing to control things for other reasons. Imposing a duty on oneself sounds a hell of a lot more acceptable to people than a raw drive for conquest. It makes imperial actions seem more palatable.

Many empires have justified their imperial policies by casting them as something nobler than they are. British had the "White Man's Burden," France had a "mission civilisatrice." Spain was looking for a universal Catholic polity and the Soviets wanted a worldwide workers revolution at some point. I think a sizable

I'd say from the beginning. A motivating factor in the Revolution was he desire for western expansion. The brutal removal of Natives from their homes and a naked war of conquest against Mexico would be absolutely shocking by today's standards. There's a good book by Frederick Cooper and Jane Burbank called Empires in

I've notice that he can't do a proper thumbs up. It's always titled somehow to make it look even smaller than it already is.