Kansas Education Board First to Back 'Intelligent Design'
Looks like Kansas is the first state to dive head first into this "Intelligent Design" controversy by adopting the religious right's propaganda and re-writing the definition of science to what they see fit. Hopefully natural selection will take over and a twister wipe these idiots out to Oz, because that is apparently where their brains reside.
This is truly an inspiring speech delivered by Al Gore last Wednesday. He has summed up in the most eloquent manner the current attempted destruction of the filibuster by the hands of extremist, zealot republicans. A must read for anyone who cares about American Democracy.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/04/27/al_gore/index.html
CNN.com - Parents challenge weekly Bible classes - Feb 12, 2005
As my daughter approaches grammar school, I am increasingly worried about having religious thought imposed upon her at such a young age. This article from CNN talks about a school district in Virginia that takes students to "optional" bible study classes at local churches during the school day. I find the fact that they are "optional" totally laughable. What kid is going to opt-out of going to this when his or her friends are going? That kid would be treated as an outsider for not going along with the group. Is this really what we need to be encouraging for our children? Besides that, I don't believe children this age can properly grasp the ideas of religious thought. Ethics and wright and wrong can be taught without religion and definitely without Bible studies. One person in the article summed it up beautifully: "Christians don't have a monopoly on morality." I am just afraid that my daughter will be encounter this in her future, considering the religious Christian community where the school district is located.
I'm not the biggest fan of the artist or the genre, but Eminem's new video is very good, both creatively and politically...
Watch it here.
Well, after almost loosing hope, my free iPod from freeipods.com finally came today. It took two weeks to fulfill the requirements, and two months to receive it. I guess between Apple's manufacturing backlog and freeipods.com backlog, it took a painfully long time to arrive. It has www.freeipods.com engraved on the back, so it is suitable for showing all the disbelievers that this truly was a real deal. It will be nice to be able to have all my music with me wherever I go.
