I must say that this is a pleasant surprise.
Gingrich and Muhamut said the Bidens didn’t ask for special treatment. They simply mulled over their movie options and left.
So, while I still think he’s an incompetent blowhard with only a passing familiarity with the truth, I have to hand it to him: He showed more class than certain other senators who would, no doubt, have played the “Do you know who I am?” card.
Want to look moronic beyond redemption? Just dress, and talk, like this idiot from the “Middle East Peace Forum” in Ohio.
Or dress, talk and act like any of these violent dimwits.
Miller did some guest blogging at Discover Magazine. You can read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
The only relevant question at this point is why the Discovery Institute keeps highlighting its own failings in this way. Why are Casey and his employers now – three years after the Dover trial – trying to rehabilitate the tattered credibility of both Michael Behe and Pandas? What mischief are they planning now? The only conclusion I can draw is that they must be maneuvering for the next round of state board hearings or legislative sessions – and I’m concerned. These folks are a whole lot better at politics and public relations than they are at science, and that means that everyone who cares about science education should be on guard.
Along with creeping socialism and Islamic jihad, one of the great dangers facing our culture is the advance of the anti-science “woo”: So-called “alternative” medicine, cultish beliefs in “detoxification”, anti-vaccine activism and all manner of quackery are invading our institutions and threatening to drive true, science-based medicine out the door.
This is not merely a matter of personal preference. It is the fight between reality and wishful thinking. As John Derbyshire said, the opposite of science is not religion, it is wishful thinking. Wishful thinking can kill you. It can kill your child. And your belief in woo can kill the rest of us.
Science is the only way to know reality. Denying reality is perilous.
Jules Crittenden on the Taliban’s press agency, the Associated (with terrorists) Press.
I’d advise the Taliban just to reprint AP articles, or have mullahs read them out in the mosques, whatever. The version linked above doesn’t even include AP’s own 3,800 dead Taliban tally that was included, apparently as an afterthought, toward the bottom of a later version … but only after a lengthy, somehat irrelevant tangent of how U.S. estimates of Taliban and civilian death tolls sometimes change following investigations. It’s a given that small-scale American errors will always trump large-scale intentional acts on the part of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in AP and much of the other media coverage. In this case AP neglects to note, as usual, that the Taliban is responsible for the vast majority of nearly 2,000 civilian deaths last year, either through suicide bombs or through hiding and firing from civilian positions. Because … one more time … the AP sucks.
