It’s one thing to act like an elitist bastard, but quite another to speak or write like one. You can walk the walk, but can you talk the talk? Here are some rules to help make sure you don’t lose bastard cred.
I’m going to pick on a random freeper (via FSTDT) because he makes an argument that I’ve seen elsewhere: in response to a question about how gay marriage might possibly affect him and his own marriage, he writes er it’s forcing me to explain to my kids why two men or two women are doing what they are doing. I have to explain […]
BarryA at Invisible Science Uncommon Descent: I will demonstrate that under very clear United States Supreme Court precedent, the subjective motives of a policy maker are simply irrelevant in determining whether the policy violates the Establishment Clause. Let us begin at the beginning – the Lemon test. In Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971) the […]
I am now a minister. Whee! I just got a certificate from Universal Life Church saying that I have been ordained and “[have] all rights and privileges to perform all duties of the Ministry.”
Found while looking up something else1: misogallic adj. characterized by hatred of the French. 1: In case you were wondering, the thing I was looking for was another word for “homophobe”, since homophobes sometimes say that the word doesn’t apply to them, because they’re not afraid of homosexuals. I haven’t found anything better, so may I suggest “misohome”?
Over at casa de Dembski, DaveScot tries to debunk a debunking of an ID argument. It goes something like this: Michael Behe: The bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex, that is, all of its components need to be in place before it’ll work. It can’t have evolved by gradual addition and improvement, because none of the subparts do anything until they’re all […]
Source The conflict in Georgia also upended Bush’s travel plans. He decided to postpone by one or two days a planned vacation beginning today at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. Yeah, I’m sure he remembers how bad it looked when hurricane Katrina struck while he was on vacation. Then again, most New Orleans residents are black. Georgians […]
One cluster of reasons people sometimes give for not voting is that “none of the candidates represent my views, and I’m tired of voting for the lesser of two evils.” (Another, of course, is plain old apathy. A coworker of mine is very straightforward about not caring about who gets elected. He knows he’ll catch shit from the rest of […]
Since PZ’s on vacation, I might actually get a chance to scoop Pharyngula with the news that a panel at the University of Central Florida voted unanimously to dismiss all charges against Webster Cook and his friend Ben Collard in the Crackergate matter. Good. HT Bill Donohue.
This is retarded: The Bush administration yesterday proposed a regulatory overhaul of the Endangered Species Act to allow federal agencies to decide whether protected species would be imperiled by agency projects, eliminating the independent scientific reviews that have been required for more than three decades. […] Under current law, agencies must subject any plans that potentially affect […]
