There’s a certain logic to it, after all: if America is going to treat the Bible as a science book, with astronomy and biology and history starting at “Genesis,” then we should be consistent and end those studies with “Revelation.” You know, “teach the controversy”: either the death of the sun or the Second Coming, [...]

The comment thread on Gary Stager’s HuffPo article on the Duncan appointment wouldn’t allow this long response, so I’m posting it here. Gary, I’m still informing myself (and as others have noted, your links are now more of my homework), so I’m going to withhold judgment somewhat. I will say that all the reading I’ve [...]

Oh, the French wit. Just the right sauce for my Freedom Fries: Asked to sum up Bush’s record on the [climate change] issue, France’s climate ambassador Brice Lalonde chose instead to pass on a story he had heard. A man comes to the White House asking to see Bush. “He doesn’t live here anymore,” he [...]

Picture this: enterprising students in cities in Texas, particularly, and other cities nationwide – along with counterparts in Romania, which just mandated a Creationism-only science curriculum (I kid you not), and maybe Turkey, for good measure – organize Smart Mobs to strike, peacefully and simultaneously, out of the blue to demand only 21st century science [...]

From the “We Don’t Need Four Ten More Years” Department: This is serious, and an opportunity for some net-roots experimentation that could be fun. So let’s talk the problem first, then possible solutions: 1. Creationists at it again The Houston Chronicle reports that a majority in the Texas Board of Education is likely to vote [...]

NCLB as a potential world epidemic To riff off an old saw, “When America sneezes, the world catches a cold.” This is beyond obvious when we think of the Iraq invasion, the refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol, and countless other examples. Less obvious, though, are the effects of American education policy on the world. [...]

Campaign news, Supreme Court analysis, evolution and intelligent design textbook battles and history, the future of books and reading, “freedom of e-speech,” and more in today’s mix. My wife made me canvas for Obama; here’s what I learned | csmonitor.com By a Southern banker conservative. Hopeful, wry, beautiful. tags: obama, elections08, history, usa Declarations – [...]

Mark Nickolas: What Political Malpractice Looks Like (The B Team That Ran The McCain Campaign Into The Ground) tags: mccain, elections08 Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Obama and McCain strategists are worlds apart tags: no_tag DAVID Axelrod, the political consultant behind the stunning rise of the Democratic White House hopeful, does [...]

kdka.com – McCain Campaign Worker Confessed To Making Up Story Of Attack BAM. Can things get any worse for the GOP? It will be interesting to read the comment threads full of racist anger over this “assault,” with nary a hint of skepticism. Will there be any reflection? tags: hoax, mccain, elections08 A Pittsburgh police [...]

Declarations – WSJ.com – Annotated No surprise the Wall St. Journal is going to declare McCain more alive than he is, but the clips below are interesting for their insights into what, riffing off George Orwell, we might call: POLITICS AND THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: tags: orwell, politics, usa, elections08 More than ever on the campaign [...]