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Ga. Evolution Dispute Embarrasses Some -- ATLANTA - First, Georgia's education chief tried to take the word "evolution" out of the state's science curriculum. Now a suburban Atlanta county is in federal court over textbook stickers that call evolution "a theory, not a fact." Some here worry that Georgia is making itself look like a bunch of rubes or, worse, discrediting its own students.

If it makes the embarrassed ones feel any better, I don't think Georgia's full of rubes. This just confirms my belief after reading articles on this stupid debate that Georgia's got a handful of backwards rubes and a whole bunch of people standing around shaking their heads going, "Stop being on our side! You're making our side look stupid!"

If it were my kid, I wouldn't want them teaching him creationism in science class, what with it being a religion thing. Kind of the same way I wouldn't want the gym teacher teaching algebra. They kind of separate the teachers by subject for a reason. Science is hard enough without sending to the teachers to freakin' theology school.

Besides, I don't want my kid being taught creationism, for crying out loud. I do believe in a God, but I don't think he took a week to create the planet. What the hell is up with that? "I'll create the planet in six days, and then on the seventh day, I'll get to hang out and play the Halo sequel." NO. Either he's an effective God who does everything all at once, (which I don't buy considering his job record) or he's the comfy slacker I've always thought he was and he had his hand in that evolution schtick from day one. Six days with a break on the seventh sounds way too much like those jerks at work who have a deadline on a project and get it done a day early specifically so they can hang around your work station and be smug all over the place. "You're still working on creating horses? Man, I got those done on Wednesday, right after I made all that soot. Hey, did you get Middle East peace done yet? I kinda slapped it together and I was wondering if I could look at your work and see if you got it right -- No? Aw, come on, man, don't be hatin'."

And while we're at it, that crack about evolution being "a theory, not a fact"? Guess what gets discussed in real science classes -- among other classes -- along with facts? That's right, kids ... theories!

EDIT: And another entry in the "What the fuck is wrong with people?!" files, child porn is found on the laptop of a pro-life priest. I'll just be over here, trying desperately not to make the tasteless sarcastic cracks this story begs for.

Lost Fic: Asking the Wrong Questions

Lost futurefic, Claire/Charlie. (Surprise, surprise. ;))

*****

Tell people you practically live on a tour bus, and all people want to ask you about is what it was like being born on a desert island.

( Asking the Wrong Questions )

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15,969 / 50,000 (31.9%)

Yes, I'm behind. That's what this weekend is for. :)

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GREENVILLE, S.C. - Bob Jones III, president of the fundamentalist college that bears his name, has told President Bush he should use his electoral mandate to appoint conservative judges and approve legislation "defined by biblical norm."

I'm sorry ... excuse me?!

I'm just going to cut and paste exactly what I said on tviokh's journal, which is this (quotes from the article in italics):

"In your re-election, God has graciously granted America — though she doesn't deserve it — a reprieve from the agenda of paganism," Jones wrote Bush in a congratulatory letter posted on the university's Web site.

Wait, is the pagan agenda like the gay agenda, but with less slash? I'd like to know these things, and nobody gave me my goddamn How to Push the Pagan Agenda manual. All I got was "An thou harm none, so mote it be" and that doesn't tell me anything about discriminating against other religions like a gigantic asshat.

You owe the liberals nothing.

Well, he may not owe us anything (aside from a religious-zealotry-free life), but he might want to keep in mind that 55 million people voted against him and you really don't want to piss off that many people. (Never mind that pissing off 5 billion other people on the planet doesn't seem to bother him any.)

They despise you because they despise your Christ.

Wait, are we talking about Jesus Christ? Because I could have sworn that he was the Christ of anyone who wanted him. My mistake. I'll just go over in the corner and go back to wasting valuable energy hating a peace-loving hippie like myself.

*elbows God in the side* You know, if you want to pull that Rapture crap right now, I don't think any of the rest of us would mind. Then you could sort the sane Christians from jerks like this. *eye roll*

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Yay for the semi-regular call to my mother. Nothing really new since the last time I called, except that my hometown voted mostly for Bush (I'm not really surprised since I saw the results for the county, but still ... *sigh*).

The only really new thing was that my mom took Otis to the vet to get declawed and neutered, and my dad is currently praising Otis's intelligence up and down. Why? Because they were supposed to keep Otis there for a few days, but they sent him home early after only a day and a half because he refused to eat. As soon as my parents got him in the house, they let him out of the box and the first thing he did was walk smugly over the cat food dish and chow down. Hee. Who says cats don't have personalities? ;)

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I was just on the phone with DHL's IT techs getting my email setup for three freakin' hours. I'd complain, but that was three hours I couldn't use the computer and therefore couldn't work. :)

EDIT: And before anybody asked, yes, that means I spent three hours of work time writing stuff for The Walking Dead of Wilkes-Barre. Hee. ;)

BASTARD CO-WORKER OF EDIT: You know, that three-hour-long break would have been even nicer if it hadn't been followed up by everybody in this place deciding en masse to act like crack-addled fuckwits. *seethes*

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The Elektra trailer. Erm ... hmm. Why do I get the impression that the fight scenes are going to be okay but the story will suck? Oh, right, because I saw Daredevil. (Notice how they mention it comes from the people who brought you X-Men and not Daredevil? Real smooth, that.)

Why don't they have a title card in that trailer that tells the truth? "This movie has Jennifer Garner in leather for two hours and it's not a two-part Alias episode featuring Sydney Bristow masquerading as a dominatrix that keeps getting interrupting by annoying Geico commercials. Plus, it has Goran Visnjic and you don't have to watch lame ER episodes to get him." See? How hard was that?