Ohio Board Undoes Stand on Evolution – New York Times COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 14 — The Ohio Board of Education voted 11 to 4 Tuesday to toss out a mandate that 10th-grade biology classes include critical analysis of evolution and an accompanying model lesson plan, dealing the intelligent design movement its second serious defeat in two months. And we can all thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for this… miracle!
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Chicago Tribune | Beans Recalled; Bird’s Head Found in Can Yack! No pinto beans for me for a good long while! And now, I’ve got a song stuck in my head: My mother told me to put birds in my beans, birds in my beans, birds in my beans. Birds in my beans. And now I can whistle from either end. Either end, either end. And now I can whistle from either end Birds in my beans.
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Apparently, using the gay marriage issue to rally the rabidly religious Right in 2004 wasn’t enough. New for 2006: The brand new Anti Gay Adoption Extravaganza! I don’t want kids of my own, but I support the right of anyone who does want to have them, by any legal means. And by legal, I mean by not kidnapping them, or swiping embryos, or anything like that. I don’t mean by being gay and wanting to have children by adoption. That should be legal, but a number of states don’t allow it (including Florida and of course Utah). And it seems…
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Recently in Barack Obama – U.S. Senator for Illinois‘s blog, he posted a reaction to the State of the Union speech, focusing on hybrid cars and the American auto industry. I’ve been meaning to respond to this for a while, because we own a Ford Escape Hybrid. I was reminded of this vague intention because we followed another Ford Escape Hybrid last night after dinner, which always gets us talking about the technology, the pigheadedness of goverment in not getting behind the concept more, and so on. Obama says: The precariousness of an oil economy, crushing healthcare costs, and the…
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I posted a sermon today that Father Ted gave on the Holy Moly blog. In it, he passed along the difficult news that Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, has entered a rehab facility. If you haven’t any interest in the controversy that the Episcopal Church is has been facing over Bishop Gene’s position as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, this won’t mean a lot. It does to me, mostly because gay people helped me along the way when first started attending an Episcopal church. This is why I find it difficult to understand why the…
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We went to Bob Chinn‘s yesterday to help Steve celebrate a birthday. It was a typicaly Bob Chinny experrience: waitstaff in Hawaiian aloha shirts with tropical fish, a huge dining room with the handwashing stations everywhere that were supposed to look like barrels of Myers’ Rum (an ingredient in the famous Bob Chinn Mai Tai) and bits of crab shell and aerosolized drawn butter floating in a fine mist over our heads. A word not often heard at Bob Chinn’s was used: “traife.” Well, most of us were not concerned with that, and we tried to keep the spray and…
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Overheard at the Starbuck’s today, while waiting for some much-needed “go juice” for my brain: Man behind a long line of people ordering chai soy-milk frothy venti lattes: “They should have a fast line for the people ordering non-froufy, plain black coffees.” Women in line ahead of me: “But we want our froufy drinks – do you want to cut ahead?” Man: “No, I’ve got plenty of time before my flight, I just wish I could walk up, get my coffee, and go.” Me, after some reflection: “But that would mean I’d have to stand in two lines, because my…
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My blogchum Bill recorded this little gem under the heading “Outsider” and “Art.” Like, WAY “outsider” “art” I particularly like the meowing part. DISCLAIMER: Music is not safe for work, unless your company policy does not prevent you from spitting coffee through your nose. Do not listen to this music while operating heavy machinery. Do not listen to this music while pregnant. Do not attempt to become pregnant while listening to this music. Good job, Bill! Well done! You’ve inspired me to do something regrettable and embarassing with music, too! Maybe we could encourage everyone to perform “Night and Day”…
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… because listening to a short clip of the adowwable tune nearly sent me straight into diabetic shock. But if you want to listen, it’s here. And thewe’s a wingtone for you cewphone, too, snookum snookums! Thanks to the nefarious machinations of Boing Boing Technorati Tags: Cuppycake, Annoying Music
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The sky outside is almost black, and there’s thunder and lightning going (very unusual for winter). We’ve got a winter storm warning for tonight, with snow, sleet, rain, ice, and all kinds of slidy badness. Tonight’s commute will be fun. Meantime, let the whining begin: “Can I leave eaaaarly? I’m wooooooried about the traaaaaafic.” And by the way, it’s just before 11am here.