May 13 2008
Lazy Tuesday Linkdump
Yeah, I’m still here. Not my last post today, but just wanna give you a few things to look at on the tubes today.
You’ve probably seen that old clip of Bill O’Reilly’s meltdown by now. Oh, the anger and angst it exudes - you can read into it a raging, sexually frustrated alcoholic who’s incredibly miffed that the high point of his career at that point was a tabloid news show. In case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t seen it:
What’s even better: “Fuck It: The Remix”.
Julie at GMD has some hilarious insights on that new GOP slogan, “Change You Deserve”. First thing I thought when I heard it - what did I do that was so bad? Did I kill someone or milk some old lady out of her life’s savings?
PZ at Pharyngula has updates on the latest religious stupidity. There’s a bill in Oklahoma now that will prevent teachers from actually judging students’ work on whether it’s actually correct or not:
A controversial provision in House Bill 2633 states that “students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of their submissions.”
So if you turn in a paper in biology that promotes the creation myth or perhaps a social studies paper that finds religious justification for the oppression of (fill in the blank), they can’t give you a bad grade. Bullshit. Also, in Maine, a school board member is trying to get evolution out of the classroom because it “can’t be proven”. I thought this kinda shit only happened south of the Mason-Dixon line. Silly me.
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“I thought this kinda shit only happened south of the Mason-Dixon line. Silly me.”
It has even happened in Vermont. Just a few years ago I reported on a local (Readsboro) school board member who proposed teaching ID in the science curriculum.
His proposal was promptly rejected, and he’s no longer on the board.
Any chance that article is online Mike, or a way i could get a copy of it?
JD,
I can’t find it… It may have been left behind on one of my old computers. If/when I come across a print copy I’ll scan it in and send it along.
I can remember a few of the particulars of the story:
It was a (now former) school board member named Bruce Busa who proposed adding ID “science” to the classroom. He claimed no religious motive…
The supervisory union curriculum coordinator, needless to say, was incredulous.
The proposal fell dead when the rest of the board (the other two members; Readsboro has a three-member board) declined to entertain the idea.
That was several years ago, and there hasn’t been another peep about ID.
Readsboro is an interesting town. I’ve also written about Readsboro’s role in the Vermont Eugenics program (I still have that article) and Readsboro’s unique industrial past.