I was reading this news article today. It discusses the fact that “Creation”, the new movie about the life of Charles Darwin has failed to secure a US distributor, as his theory of evolution has been deemed “too controversial” for American audiences. When I was done weeping over that particular extreme fact of Fail (which [...]
Continue reading...8. September 2009
Some of you may be familiar with the Bernard Baran case. In the first 1980s “day-care-panic” case to secure a conviction, Baran, an openly gay daycare worker, was railroaded into serving a 22-year prison sentence. He was (dis)ably assisted by an incompetent lawyer, obviously coerced child “confessions”, and the general atmosphere of hysteria that permeated [...]
Continue reading...1. September 2009
Charles R Darwin, is there anything good in Missouri? Came across this link via Richard Dawkins’ twitter. Briefly, Smith-Cotton High School’s marching band created the above t-shirt for its players to wear to promote their fall program. No sooner had the band debuted the t-shirts at the Missouri State Fair parade when complaints by “concerned [...]
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15. September 2009
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