Party Scientist Gifts

When Astronomers Party.

Leon the electron was not sure just to where he'd been blasted when the photon struck, but indicators suggested he was now in one of the atom's degenerate orbitals.

Department of No One Could Have Anticipated.

"You're fired."

"Nation-building never works."

The Signing of tthe United States Constitution

"'I don't want war'. . . well, wither our translation program is broke or this president has a strange kind of humor!"

"The university said he was a climate change denier so remove the statue."

America, are we learning anything?

Sir Winston Churchill

Oligarchy

"I can't decide what I fear the most, Putin's Russia or Putin's America."

The International and May Day Terrorism

Donald Trump Removing Aggressor Label From Vladimir Putin

Ahem. I'm eating. Not now, please. Just one tiny question. Believers I American exceptionalism have always said we're the paragon of democracy. So I'm just wondering … How come one party is passing unnecessary laws that'll keep millions of us from voting? They're robbing us of our voice! Could've surprised me.

"I don't like the looks of that!"

"Take this declaration of war and punch it up."

King George I

CIA report

'Ah, it's so precious to witness a child learn how government actually works...'

That's What Happens

Archival Warfare

The devil you know and his plus one

That party went well.

Where does it all end up?

To Err Is Human, to Mess up Big-Time Is Democratic

Compression

"Whoa, don't ask constitutional questions you don't want to know the answers to."

An informed voter is a good voter

U.S. Foreign Policy

'General, please hire large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny.'

Nails pinning down the hammer that usually strikes them.

A political promise is intended to be a golden egg...Which is kept in a pork barrel and after an election...Hatches into a dead duck before...it turns invisible so it can quietly vanish.

'It's historic that the inauguration of a minority is now routine.'

Matryoshka/ Russian Gas Cylinders