It\u2019sssss our Birthday!<\/a><\/p>\nAs we all celebrate the great gift of this wonderful writer, let us reflect on the fact that if the Many Worlds Hypothesis is true and every possible variation on our universe exists somewhere, then we have cause to be grateful that we live in the universe that got \u201cJ. R. R. TOLKIEN\u2019S LORD OF THE RINGS\u201d\u00a0and not\u00a0\u201cSNORTERS JERK FILTH DROOLING\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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