Here are a couple of other pictures from that visit:<\/p>\n And since I’ve already had to bite back a couple of “Oh, go fuck yourself” responses to political tweets, I’m going to give the Internet a miss for the rest of the day, and spend the holiday as the Founding Fathers would’ve wanted: taking the kids to see animatronic dinosaurs at the local science museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Wait,” you say, because for the purposes of this post, you are a tiresome pedant. “They didn’t know anything about dinosaurs in 1776. It was the 1830’s before the first dinosaur species were described.”<\/p>\n “Oh, please,” I reply. “Do you seriously think that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin would pass up a chance to see freakin’ robots<\/em>? At a science museum<\/em>? They would’ve been all over that shit. And you don’t get more patriotic than Franklin and Jefferson…”<\/p>\n And just as a bonus, here are two more kid pictures where you can actually see their faces.<\/p>\n And a bonus seasonally appropriate music video:<\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/07\/sm_kate_pip_mammoths_point.jpg\")
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