Peter Sagal: What will the congressonal "supercommittee" come up with at the last minute?
Roy Blount, Jr.: Time travel. However, there's still a problem. The Democrats want to go back in time just to undo the Bush tax cuts. And the Republicans want to go back a little further — to undo the Enlightenment.

"[The philosophe is] one who, trampling on prejudice, tradition, universal consent, authority — in a word, all that enslaves most minds — dares to think for himself, to go back and search for the clearest general principles, to admit nothing except on the testimony of his experience and his reason."
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