Month: January 2008

Evolution

A reader writes:

Several months ago, I found myself drifting away from your blog. I even pouted my way through your wedding and didn’t congratulate you (a risible, insulting diss from a WASP). It was hard. I’m not certain how I would have gotten through the Bush/ Cheney years without your blog. But I’d gotten so fed up with your Hillary obsession, I just couldn’t take it anymore.  Looking back, I realize I took it personally. I now accept that sometimes we women simply over-identify with Hillary.

But something essential shifted inside of me and in my 43 years, I have never experienced anything like it.  After 15 years of unflinching, Blumenthal-level Clintonista tendencies, I woke up one day and realized I hated them.

Not that I was severely uncomfortable with their attacks on Obama, although I was, not that the racially tinged lies were disgusting, although they were, not that Hillary’s candidacy is actually a disgrace to feminism, although it is, not that their path to winning is by killing hope, although it is. No, it was a gestalt really, more of a snowball effect that started the first day of the Penn-cocaine filth.  It really got some steam up post MLK/Johnson and exploded when Bill Clinton threw black people under the bus the first chance he got, blaming everyone but himself in the process.

All of those years of defending the Clinton’s against their enemies simply fell away.  The memories of Monica floated back up, I remembered how they threw her under the bus the first chance they got too.  Does anyone doubt Bill would have let Monica rot in jail had it come to that?

I’m trying to adjust to this new reality of mine, although the biggest surprise has been how natural it feels.  I can’t tell you how many people I know have gone through this same transformation.  The rift is irreparable, but that is OK.  I’m focusing solely on the future and feel much lighter for it.

Yes we can.

Debunking The “Super Carrot”

Matthew Dillon is unimpressed by the alleged scientific breakthrough:

[The super carrot] could have a major impact on a totally uninformed marketplace — but not much of an impact on nutrition. However, it is likely to have an impact on genetic contamination, wasted public research dollars, and increased corporate profits. If you had read the press release and considered the math around just how much more calcium we are getting from this new carrot, and at what costs, you might have seen that this "news flash" is no news at all.

Joe Klein On The Rebuke To The Clintons

Perfect:

It may well be true that any Democrat is going to have to handle that sort of sewage in the general election, but I’ve now–belatedly!–figured out that the real audacity in Barack Obama’s campaign–far more than his positions on the issues, which almost seem an afterthought–is his outrageous belief that the entire country, not just Democrats, wants to see a straight up election; that the entire country is tired of the pestilence of tactical tricks that the Clintons learned from their co-dynasts, the Bushes. (The latest example being their sudden, sociopathic emphasis on the importance of the Florida primary, a contest all three candidates had agreed to eschew at the behest of the Democatic National Committee.)

It is a hell of a bet Obama has made. And nearly 40 years of political, uhm, experience tells me that it isn’t a very wise one…but I must also say that it is truly sad to see Bill and Hillary Clinton on the wrong side of it.

Creationist Cartoons

A creationist cartoonist explains how man made dinosaurs evil:

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The magazine that published the cartoon argues that science isn’t "scientific" and Darwinism is really a "religion":

…though most people, including scientists, consider the biblical teaching of origins to be religious and consider evolutionary ideas scientific, we should challenge such a view. In the secular media, for instance, the debate is often described as “creationism vs. evolution,” as if the “ism” should not apply to “evolution.” This is not accurate, because believing in evolution, like believing in creation, requires acceptance of a certain presuppositional dogma and requires placing one’s faith in a story about the unrepeatable past. See Science or the Bible?

Also, the term “religion” must be defined clearly. While beliefs and worship practices, procedures, and conduct are involved in religion, any belief system that purports to be a total explanation of reality is more-or-less religion. Thus, insofar as it is an attempt to explain why the world is the way it is, held to with ardor and faith, Darwinian evolution can thus be considered religion.