Cool…Olduvai George does fish, too.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Cool…Olduvai George does fish, too.
Check out the Sandwalk: Strolling with a skeptical biochemist. I’m dismayed that it’s been up for a whole week before I noticed.
I’ve already learned something important: Tim Horton is the god-equivalent in Canada. If coffee and donuts inspire similar levels of sexual obsession and freaky legislation in Canada as does religion in the USA, I don’t think I want to hear about it. Too, too kinky.
Pam Spaulding suggests that this unbelievable speculation is a trial balloon:
Some big name Democrats want to oust DNC Chairman Howard Dean, arguing that his stubborn commitment to the 50-state strategy and his stinginess with funds for House races cost the Democrats several pickup opportunities.
The candidate being floated to replace Dean? Harold Ford.
Says James Carville, one of the anti-Deaniacs, “Suppose Harold Ford became chairman of the DNC? How much more money do you think we could raise? Just think of the difference it could make in one day. Now probably Harold Ford wants to stay in Tennessee. I just appointed myself his campaign manager.”
If that’s a trial balloon, let’s all hop into our Sopwith Camels and shoot it down. The Democrats succeeded beyond expectations last Tuesday; Dean’s strategy is working. Harold Ford is a conservative loser, one of those Republican Lite candidates so beloved of the disastrous old-school beltway management. This unlikely proposal would represent a retreat from a path that is working to the old strategies that were obviously not working. They’d have to be insane to do that.
Also, somebody needs to stage an intervention for Carville.
I like this summary by Brian Flemming:
The Democrats won a mandate without excessive God-talk and without actually winning over evangelicals in significant numbers. The election results weaken the argument for religious pandering; they don’t strengthen it.
This is not to say that we can tell the religious to just go away, but that what we should do in politics and government is continue to push purely secular values, and trust the sensible evangelicals to find common cause with what is right…just as I will vote for evangelicals who can promote progressive values in spite of their silly supernatural beliefs.
Happy birthday, Syaffolee!
My day was spent in the Twin Cities attending the inaugural public meeting of the Minnesota Citizens for Science Education (MnCSE), and I can safely say now that Science Education Saturday was a phenomenal success: a good turnout, two top-notch talks, a stimulating panel discussion, and an involved audience that asked lots of good questions. You should have been there! I expect that, with the good response we got today, that there will be future opportunities to attend MnCSE events.
I’ll just give a brief summary of the main points from the two talks today. I understand that outlines or perhaps even the powerpoint files will be available on the MnCSE page at some future date, but give the organizers a little time to recover from all the effort they put into this meeting.
Here are some highlights from his press conferences.
I’m ensconced in a comfy chair at the Bell Museum, waiting for the MnCSE Science Education Saturday meeting to start. I’ll take notes and be sure to put up a summary later today.
It’s not too late to come on down!
UTI is becoming just a center for hilarity lately.
Several people have brought this cartoon to my attention. I don’t get it.
So Bush and Rummy are being rewarded for their incompetence by getting to hang out with the octopuses? Or does the cartoonist just hate cephalopods, and is illustrating their torment? (They do look kind of pissed).
