Tom Leherer’s classic “New Math”:

Bo Burnham’s “New Math”—arguably (will I be struck by lightning for blasphemy?) funnier:

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Haven’t you always wanted a Unix-style command line interface for Google?

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Well, I’m sold:

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Quoth Cass Sunstein:
I know for a fact that Obama has actually played basketball with Richard Epstein, a libertarian on the law school faculty who has written some pretty controversial things on property rights and government regulation.

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Genius.

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Muxtape.

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I like robots.

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The Spitzer scandal has prompted a lot of discussion of the legal status of prostitution. Andrew Sullivan quotes a commenter who asks:
Why is it illegal to sell, what it is perfectly legal to give away?
Indeed. But I always preferred George Carlin’s formulation:

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China is so going to own us in a decade.

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