Prometheus 6

I'm going to endanger my sanity by giving the Republican convention the same type of attention I gave the Democratic convention. I'll be wearing the psychic condoms of CSPAN and PBS rather than, well, any cable news channel at all.

Meanwhile, I would like to direct your attention to driftglass (who writes like he could actually be Samuel R. Delany),

The Negrological Constant

Because the prevailing model of the Universe at the time was fundamentally flawed (presumed to be static, not expanding), when Albert Einstein first tried to apply his general theory of relativity to the Universe\, the results thoroughly freaked him out (Universe collapsing! Cats and dogs living together!)