With a vote last month, the school board in rural south-central Pennsylvania community is believed to have become the first in the nation to mandate the teaching of "intelligent design," which holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by an unspecified higher power.ya know, using that logic, then this laptop i'm using must have been created by a heavenly being, because i'm too stupid to know how to build one or to understand how that annoying microsoft word buddy icon keeps popping up asking me if i want to learn how to write a letter. go away, stupid animated paper clip, or i'll pray that you will be eaten by animated microsoft lions, and then you'll be sorry!
at some point in our history, we thought that demons caused illnesses. then someone invented the microscope, and we learned that bacteria and viruses caused diseases. and then someone figured out that penicillin stopped people from being sick better than sticking leeches on their limbs. et cetera.
science is a good thing. it keeps us from being mired in ignorance and mediocrity. it can be our friend, really.
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Oh a weird note Michelle Malkin, good buddy of Bill O'Reilly, would love to inform you that she loves leeches, she uses them on her kids daily. http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000811.htm
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michelle, michelle, michelle. grasping at straws, as usual. at some point, leeches were used for various ailments, because they were the best thing doctors had on hand. however, because of science, we have come up with better ways to reduce fevers. like tylenol.
as for their use on skin grafts, i don't think that is what the times was referring to. that's great that scientists have found a good use for these critters. the times was referring to a time when we didn't have the knowledge that we have today, and it was a snarky jab basically saying that we might ignore the progress that we have made and go back to doing things the old, less efficient and effective way.
point. shoot. miss.
because "crazy" isn't determined by the color of your skin. you can be an insane and shrill wingnut if you're white, black, latino or asian.
sense and conservative fascist fuckheads don't often meet. hence contradictions like queer voters for bush. or condoleeza rice. or colin powell - though i gather he fell off the crazy train a long time ago given his alienating speech to the RNC about not forgetting minority voters and women. that was the start of his downfall - trying to introduce truth and logic. and then, of course, he quit/was fired today.
well many people vote with their pocketbooks in mind. the truth is, in this country, if you have a lot of money, civil rights become less relevant. you can buy influence and freedom from government intrusion. if roe v. wade is overturned, no problem. you can travel to canada or another state. if you get bothered by the police, you can hire a great lawyer. and if you can't get married, it doesn't matter, because you don't need to 1000+ federal benefits given to you by the feds. a school administrator in public service at my school had to shell out $700 per month in cobra (insurance) when her partner fell ill (because her partner's employer didn't have domestic partner benefits). that's a lot of dough for most of us. if you're in the top 5% of the income bracket, it's not so much.
i'm going to be cynical here, but the more shrill and right wing michelle malkin is, the more readers she gets. the more readers she gets and the more she pisses people off, the more famous she gets. the more famous she gets, the more she gets in speaker fees and book sales, etc. michelle malkin has a niche, and she exploits it well.
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