I’ve never heard of it before now, so here’s a summary for anyone else with a major gap in their education:

The Scopes trial was a famous legal case in Tennessee where a teacher was accused of violating a law that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools.

Evolution was never specifically covered in my education. I remember at least one class skipping it on purpose because evolution was controversial and the instructor was not going to get consent forms for every student.

A real class act.

Scholar of memes.

We won’t just have death panels. We’ll have automated death panels!

On the contrary, cars are way too subsidized! We should be taxing these vehicles to appropriately reflect their social cost.

Sandy is beautiful.

Man this sucks. I fell for it too.

This article looks fake.

~~> These scales have a unique crystalline structure embedded with conductive proteins that can store and discharge electrical energy. When threatened, the animal can generate electrical pulses measuring up to 50 volts—not lethal to humans but certainly sufficient to deter predators.

Way cool!~~

This is fake. How unfortunate.

Mr. Anderson.

Sometimes you get care and you learn a year later that you can’t afford it and your life is over.

All I see is that this cycle is more efficient.

No fair! I want my cookie.

I think you have to have a certain status with them. I visited, and my boss got a cookie, but I got nothing.

Let’s see the squirrels chew through this one.

This here meme’s an antique!

I really hope kids in the womb today get the chance to die of old age.

I can also ask someone else to read a book for me, but I don’t get any enjoyment from that.

It was a nice place in the right light but now, it’s hard to be very proud. All I feel is shame.

How is that possible? We banned it. We had a whole vote on it any everything.