US Elections 2008

By thescian on January 9, 2008.

The Onion demands your attention to inform you of an important election issue:

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

Also, Jimmy's got a message.

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Hot frantic friday, and we ask the iPod. Oh, mighty one - are we classically deterministic automata, predictable by any Turing machine, or do we have that most insidious of concepts, a true Free Will? Whoosh goes the randomizer... Whoosh.

Admirable....not necessarily accurate...regarding science...in a movie!?

That is what the SEED overlords are asking this week:

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