These are policemen who do not understand their obligations as officers of the law. These are policemen who ought to be summarily dismissed from their jobs.
They won’t be.
(via The Lippard Blog)
Thousands of people heard that the sea water at a beach had turned sweet, and they Share this:
David Neiwert took a vacation…and his home movie is worth watching and listening to.
You can get a jump on the class—I’ve posted a list of the textbooks you’ll need on the class website.
A reader wrote to Francis Collins about the use of his name to promote D. James Kennedy’s upcoming ahistorical anti-evolution program, and Collins wrote right back. He’s doing exactly the right thing.
(Oops, no — Collins doesn’t want to be quoted on this, so I’ve removed the email. He’s unambiguous in stating that he was interviewed about his book, and that was then inserted into the video without his knowledge.)
Good for him, and that’ll teach me: just when you think there are no further depths to which a creationist will sink, there they go, plumbing ever deeper. Kennedy and his crew are apparently putting together the video equivalent of a quote mine.
I apologize to Dr Collins for assuming he was a party to this creationist video, and I hope he sues those frauds.
But when you do shed your speedo, don’t throw it in the water—it’s bad for dolphins and other living things. Read about the poor dolphin who tried to wear a speedo—it took an emergency depantsing team to rescue him.
(via One Good Thing)
The Inoculated Mind twists a Calvin and Hobbes comic to make a point about debates with creationists…I don’t know if I should endorse that kind of tinkering with Holy Writ.
Oh, yeah…this Friday, 25 August, at 8ET, I’ll be interviewed on the Infidel Guy. Don’t let me forget!
New Kid on the Hallway tried to give up on blogging, but now she’s back…with an interesting set of excuses for why she needed to resume. See, if you’ve been carrying on an internal dialog about you’d get so much more done if weblogs would disappear, it isn’t true.
The Raw Story reveals that D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries will be a hosting a program that blames Darwin for Hitler. Orac has going to have to resurrect an entire zombie Wehrmacht to handle this one: look at the unholy corps of creationists he has assembled to defend this outrageous claim:
The one-hour program features Ann Coulter, author of Godless; Richard Weikart, author of From Darwin to Hitler; Lee Strobel, author of The Case for a Creator; Jonathan Wells, author of Icons of Evolution; Phillip Johnson, author of Darwin on Trial; Michael Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box; Ian Taylor, author of In the Minds of Men, and Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project.
