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To compound my nerdish leanings: Nixon was elected president 4 episodes later in A Head in the Polls(season 2 episode 3)

Up until the episode When Aliens Attack (ep. 1ACV12, season 1 episode 12) the President's name was McNeal. In a stunning bit of coincidence that also happened to be the name of the protagonist on the popular 20th century sitcom/dramedy "Single Female Lawyer" which due to the speed of radio wave transmission was just reaching the Omicron Persei star system. After a misunderstanding of the demands of Lrr of Omicron Persei 8, President McNeal was handed over to the aliens. After the misunderstanding was clairified, he was disintegrated.

Wow. That was so nerdy even I want to beat me up.

First, we already state our nonpartisan policy clearly on our site, encouraging our members to check their ideology at the door and review the news with a neutral viewpoint.

Good luck with that. I realized long ago that political ideologies are mental illnesses of varying degrees of severity. Most people *can't* check their ideology at the door because it's too deeply entwined in their thought processes, such as they are, like some sort of alien brain parasite.

I consider it *worse* then religion, because I have seen far more people lose their religion than I have seen lose their precious political POVs. You just have to look at how similar political and religious ideologies are. They both think they have some sort of monopoly on the truth, deviations from the gospel are never accepted, they demonize the opposition and they tend to try the same failed approaches over and over while expecting a different result (which is a type of mental illness all by itself).

Pragmatism and realism are dead, dead, dead. Color them dust.

Picture: A Republican and a Democrat prepare to debate each other.

etc. are swiftly banished by handwavium, ignorefactium and the ever popular technologyisjustmagicium.

Well if they are banished I shall simply reinstate them with some Robobium, Diamondium and a Chronoton or two.