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Quinn Cummings, a humorist and prolific writer of funny stuff on Twitter, noted the other day that she’d been stuck in line at the grocery store behind some lady attempting to write a check for over the purchase price, to get cash.

“We now know someone in 1978 had access to a time machine,” Quinn said.

As someone who once stood for eight minutes behind a woman attempting to withdraw $23 from an ATM, I believe in these time machines.

I’ve been riding in one, too, although of the more natural variety. Maybe that’s why I’m noting these half-centennial commentaries that seem to c...