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6 August, 2008

Amanda Peet: Anti-Bimbo

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 13:55

How refreshing to find a Hollywood actress with a head on her shoulders.

“It seems that the media is often giving celebrities and actors more authority on this issue than they are giving the experts,” Peet said. “I know it’s a paradox, but that’s part of why I wanted to become a spokesperson, to say to people, ‘Please don’t listen to me. Don’t listen to actors. Go to the experts.'”

What a refreshing contrast to that anti-vaccine Uber-Bimbo. I can’t say I’ve ever seen her act, but at least she understands what an actor is and isn’t. Good for her.

More Birds Leave the Wire

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 9:20

Jennifer Rubin writes about the former cheerleaders for The One who now wonder if there’s anything in his suit.

The bottom line: liberal pundits — following months of analysis by their conservative counterparts — had figured out that despite the best possible terrain for the Democrats to recapture the White House, the Democrats (with a whole lot of cheerleading from the mainstream media) have chosen a thinly experienced, irresolute, underachieving and obnoxious standard bearer. And his excuse-mongering just makes it all the more irritating.

Read the whole thing.

Discovery Institute Distorts Again

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 8:01

Apparently they have no sense of shame at the so-called Discovery Institute (which has yet to discover a single thing). They took a news article about how a software simulation doesn’t fully explain how evolution took place – an article which seems to conflate evolution with the origins of life, typically bad science reporting – and tried to twist it into some kind of admission that evolution doesn’t reflect reality.

I’m sure the scientists involved would be apalled, since they themselves dismiss the so-called Discovery Institute’s major thesis:

His conclusion? Although natural selection is necessary for life, something is missing in our understanding of how evolution produced complex creatures. By this, he doesn’t mean intelligent design – the claim that only God can light the blue touch paper of life – but some other concept. “I don’t know what it is, nor do I think anyone else does, contrary to the claims you hear asserted,” he says. But he believes ALife will be crucial in discovering the missing mechanism.

Get that? There’s no doubt that evolution took place, just that (not surprisingly) our understanding of how it works isn’t complete. And it specifically is not “God” – which the IDiots dismiss as a straw man in a childish fit of “am not!”. Anybody who doubts that ID is a religious claim is either uninformed or dishonest.

And the fine folks at the so-called Discovery Institute are obviously dishonest. Shame on them.

Paris for President

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 7:43

I voted for her in this poll before I even saw the ad. She was the “None of the above” candidate. But now you can see she actually has an energy policy, which is more than Obama can say. And I can’t say it’s any worse than McCain’s.

I May Be a Racist

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 7:41

But are you?

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