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Teachers at his facility are forbidden to use the “e-word” (evolution)
with the kids. They are permitted to use the word “adaptation” but only to refer to a current characteristic of an organism, not as a product of evolutionary change via natural selection. They cannot even use the term “natural selection.”
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Bob’s personal issue was more specific, and the prohibition more insidious. In his words, “I am instructed NOT to use hard numbers when telling kids how old rocks are. I am supposed to say that these rocks are VERY VERY OLD … but I am NOT to say that these rocks are thought to be about 300 million years old.”

Dick Cheney’s suite demands include a 68 degree temperature and the TV pre-set to the Faux News Channel.

And to think I always thought he liked his brains chilled. There’s probably a rider regarding the ph balance of his graveyard dirt that serves as a sleep/composting mound.

Ichiro: ‘The Best Part About Playing For My Country Was Not Playing For The Seattle Mariners’ | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

SAN DIEGO—In an interview following Japan’s 10-6 victory against Cuba in the World Baseball Classic championship game Monday, Ichiro Suzuki called the tournament a “great opportunity to represent anything besides the Seattle Mariners.” “Playing alongside my countrymen on the world stage was nice, but the highlight of the event for me was not having to watch helplessly from the on-deck circle as [Seattle outfielder] Willie Bloomquist pops out for the fourth time in one game,” said Ichiro, who has been contemplating a return to his non-Mariner roots since late 2003. “Honestly, I would have played for the Netherlands team if it meant 17 days away from the Mariners spring-training camp.” Although he said that the legendary Sadaharu Oh did a fine job coaching Team Japan, Ichiro added that “next to Mike Hargrove, any idiot in a baseball cap would seem like a decent manager.”

You can’t handle the Joementum!

McEnroe: You probably know that I wrote in the Currant last Sunday that if I had to vote in the primary right now I would, with some sorrow vote for Ned Lamont simply because you have kind of drifted so far towards the Bush Administration whose policies I don’t approve of very much. Tell me why I’m wrong, tell me why I should vote for you.

Lieberman: Well I…I think that your statement just then was as ridiculous and unfair as your column was. I was really upset by it. I don’t get to hear you a lot because I’m in Washington but if you’re saying that on the air really I hope your listeners are taking it with a grain of salt.

First off let me go to something that really bothered me. You have this line saying that I’ve come to a point where I’m saying that those who do not parrot my support of the war are unpatriotic and then you take TOTALLY out of context something that I said in a speech that I gave last December when I came back from Iraq and I urge you to go back and look at that whole speech.

McEnroe: Okay, tell me why…

Lieberman: Let me just finish this!

There’s more. Lieberman’s cracking and Ned Lamont’s going to beat him in the primary. Good. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving prick. The audio, for now, can be found on the WTIC site.

Shocking no one, it’s the cowards, milk monitors, tattletails, and whiners who turn into conservatives when they grow up. Rules-based, unimaginative, rigid thinkers become close-minded bigots. But don’t believe me or your lyin’ eyes… now it’s been scientifically proven!

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

Which explains the conservative fixation on restraints, bondage, and man-on-dog sex. If you’re self-reliant, you don’t need the dog or the dog collar.

Windows can run on intel Macs. Why anyone would want to pay the premium for Apple hardware and industrial design while also putting an inferior OS on said hardware is beyond me.

Up next: how to mod your Jaguar into a Toyota Camry

If I ever get cable, I’m totally going to build my own PVR with Ubuntu linux, a TV tuner card, and a small form factor case. You know, like this guy. (his step by step is nice, with plenty of pictures)

Why pay $16/mo? The daunting part is the setup, but tinkering is in a monkey’s nature, no?

Up to 32GB now

Samsung is first to announce a Flash storage device that aims to completely replace the traditional hard drive in some mass market mobile computers. The 32 GB solid state disk (SSD) drive comes in a 1.8″ form factor and reads data at more than twice the speed of hard drives. Best of all: The SSD is promised to consume 95% less power than a hard drive.

The power consumption part is huge. You know how much longer our laptops can run without having to churn their harddrives? If the SSDs can replace the HDDs, this will be huge. Huge!

Comes a new series, brought to you by the man who can’t write covering the interregnum between the odious and the sullied, Lucas presents to you, a 100-episode Star Wars TV series.

The TV series spin-off of the Stars Wars film franchise will run to at least 100 episodes, according to producer Rick McCallum.

He told BBC Radio 1 the writing team would soon be meeting to start on the project, which would begin filming in 2008 and be ready the same year.

“Hopefully if we can make it work and everybody’s excited and watches it we will keep on going,” said McCallum.

The series will be set between episodes three and four of the film saga.

It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers.

Here’s the thing: Jesus’ son Luke’s first 20 years? Were spent being a moisture farmer on Tatooine. Ex-CIT-ing.

I hope this works out better than the claw-your-eyes-out awful holiday special.

Adventures in freedom: Afghanistan edition

A man in Afghanistan is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death after being charged with converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under the country’s Islamic sharia laws, a judge said Sunday.

It’s for a show he made up called ‘Depressed Roomies‘… it’s unique, it’s fun, it’s smarty, it’s great. People with talent suck!

FAIR recently did some yeoman work in collecting the quotes of the chickenhawk brigade and busheviks regarding the invasion of Iraq. You know, those cheeto-stained basement bloggers, pundits, and drunken catholigayhiv+ fucktards who classified everyone, such as yours truly, who opposed the war for any reason. They even went so far as to call anti-Iraq war opponents as traitors, a fifth column, cowards, appeasers, and idiots.

Am I angry? Oh… a tad.

Well, bitches, you reap what you sow. I was right, for all the right reasons, and everything I predicted has come to pass. Quagmire, civil war, making us weaker, making us a pariah nation, strengthening the terrorists, and making us more vulnerable. It’s actually been worse than I predicted, since I never countenanced that we would have a government that actively supports torture and the destruction of the Constitution. My bad.

The blood of thousands upon thousands of people is at least partially on the hand of people like the entire Faux “news” staff, Andrew Sullivan, the knuckledraggers at the Corner, the NYT, the Washington Post, and the rest of the high-income punditocracy.

Here are a few choice quotes:

“The war was the hard part. The hard part was putting together a coalition, getting 300,000 troops over there and all their equipment and winning. And it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but it is not as hard as winning a war.”
(Fox News Channel’s Fred Barnes, 4/10/03)

“Oh, it was breathtaking. I mean I was almost starting to think that we had become inured to everything that we’d seen of this war over the past three weeks; all this sort of saturation. And finally, when we saw that it was such a just true, genuine expression. It was reminiscent, I think, of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And just sort of that pure emotional expression, not choreographed, not stage-managed, the way so many things these days seem to be. Really breathtaking.”
(Washington Post reporter Ceci Connolly, appearing on Fox News Channel on 4/9/03, discussing the pulling down of a Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad, an event later revealed to have been a U.S. military PSYOPS operation–Los Angeles Times, 7/3/04)

“The war winds down, politics heats up…. Picture perfect. Part Spider-Man, part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan. The president seizes the moment on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.”
(PBS’s Gwen Ifill, 5/2/03, on George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech)

“Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should the people in Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?”
(Fox News Channel’s Alan Colmes, 4/25/03)

“I doubt that the journalists at the New York Times and NPR or at ABC or at CNN are going to ever admit just how wrong their negative pronouncements were over the past four weeks.”
(MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, 4/9/03)

“This will be no war — there will be a fairly brief and ruthless military intervention…. The president will give an order. [The attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling…. It will be greeted by the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation. And I say, bring it on.”
(Christopher Hitchens, in a 1/28/03 debate– cited in the Observer, 3/30/03)

“Speaking to the U.N. Security Council last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell made so strong a case that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is in material breach of U.N. resolutions that only the duped, the dumb and the desperate could ignore it.”
(Cal Thomas, syndicated column, 2/12/03)

Mmmm… I love the smell of crow in the morning.

There’s nothing new about ‘reggaeton’. Much like ‘emo’ before it, it’s just a new marketing term to a pre-existing musical style. It gets a temporary push as being the new ‘it’ style, but there’s nothing new or remarkable about it. At best, it’s a slight modification of dancehall reggae… but that’s it.

Oh, and ‘emo’ still sucks.

We had our keeper league auction last night, 5×5 roto, mixed, 12 teams. There were some last minute changes that made the league a lot shallower than initially planned for (-1 C position, -3 bench).

Roster ($)

C – B. McCann (1)
1 – R. Howard (21)
2 – M. Giles (16)
3 – D. Wright (37)
S – J. Uribe (1)
M – L. Gonzalez (1) (COL, not ARI)
C – P. Fielder (5)
O – C. Crawford (34)
O – A. Dunn (26)
O – B. Bonds (15)
O – C. Crisp (17)
O – W. Pena (4)
U – J. Morneau (8)

P – P. Martinez (25)
P – E. Gagne (16)
P – L. Hernandez (2)
P – A. Reyes (2)
P – E. Loaiza (2)
P – F. Liriano (5)
P – M. Gonzalez (2)
P – B. Fuentes (2)
P – C. Young (1)

B – A. Marte (3)
B – E. Encarnacion (2)
B – C. Granderson (2)
B – C. Patterson (1)

Thome was probably the worst pickup of the night – he went for $18, whereas Frank Thomas went for $1. People paid huge money for Sheets and Prior too. The only guys I overpaid for from my rankings were Dunn and Liriano, but both were only by a buck. Chris Young, the SD pitcher, not the ARI top prospect, was a mistake. Given all the buzz of his move to Petco, I was sure someone out there would take him for $2 or more… but it didn’t happen. I have him valued at a bit over $4, so it’s not a huge mistake, but there are other pitchers I would rather have in his stead. He’s got upside, anyway. The one who got away that I wanted was J. Bonderman who went for $12 or so, which was way over what I had him rated at but I would have gone extra for the upside factor. Not $12, though.

I think I played this one pretty well and am happy with my team. The 4-person bench blows, and my starting pitching is middling but I think I’m well set up for this year and the upcoming ones. My power is good to great, my speed is good to great, and I’m not overly reliant on any one person. Counting Granderson and Patterson, I’ve got 6 guys who are good bets to have at least 15 HR and 15 SB, many of them are under age 27. Howard’s going to explode this year, and he makes good trade bait for next year, since I have Prince Fielder locked up for $5 and Morneau for $8, either or both of whom could explode on the league and who I can also lock up for 5 years with salaries of 20 and 23 respectively for the years ’08-’10. I’m overstocked at 3B with D. Wright, one of the top-10 prospects in the game (Marte), and Encarnacion, who I think is going to be a stud.

This league has 3 injury spots, so I’m pretty well set up for those kinds of deals (and should help with the pitching staff, particularly since I expect Reyes to go down in June with an exploding elbow or something).

Minor league draft is coming up when the season starts. A bunch of guys paid for AA players who will only show up in August, if at all. I mean, I have my prospect list and everything… but paying auction money for a guy who’s going to have to take up a spot on your bench all year and give you nothing is a waste of a year. Since I’m going to pummel those guys. Why you would pay $7 for Delmon Young when a) he’s not in the majors, and b) you can get Andy Marte for $3 and Edwin Encarnacion for $2 (both in the majors, one starting, one likely to start by June), is beyond me.

Who knows, maybe I’m just mad that I didn’t get Howie Kendrick.

My garbage company switched routes today without telling anyone. Now, instead of reaching my place at 3pm or so… they’re here at 7am. Bitches. And I have some super stinky trash ready to go, too. We’re talking baby diaper stinky, only without the baby. Or the poo. Still, it’s totally stinky. Grr.