Video: What A Waste of (Prime) Time

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Picture an America where friendly, funky, Cub-fan-fanatic Chicago is the only inhabited spot between New York City and Twin Peaks. Imagine that this mythical U.S. has become so awash in racial sensitivity and tolerance that even drug dealers practice affirmative action, yet, strangely enough, intergalactic aliens are a far more visible minority group than Hispanics. In this youth-obsessed culture, where children of all races automatically come equipped with loving families, the stork must have supplanted traditional biology, for there are virtually no pregnant women.

Other oddities abound. How can the economy remain prosperous when half the work force lazes around luncheonettes...

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