This just in: predicting the future is a crapshoot

To Tim Goheen, re: this editorial cartoon of his: Some other things that the founders of the US didn’t anticipate were cars, indoor plumbing, computers, planes, and fancy wigs on men being thought of as weird.  Also, women voting and owning property, & blacks not being property.  “They never would’ve imagined!” is a simple and largely meaningless statement, not an entire argument.

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