Good news from outer darkness
Staggering news from Utah (as reported in the New York Times): In a defeat for critics of Darwin, the Utah House of Representatives on Monday voted down a bill intended to challenge the theory of evolution...
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WWKD?
Apropos of my recent post about the silly "natural family" resolution adopted by the city council of Kanab, UT, I have news of a new web site: http://www.whatsupwithkanab.com Check it out,...
Naturally stupid
The city council of Kanab, Utah, has unanimously endorsed a non-binding "Natural Family Resolution" that promotes the claustrophobic values of '50s America. You know, that nice women-belong-in-the-kitchen morality that had grown across the...
The day I dread in Feb
Happy President's Day (2004) from Loudon Wainwright III. If wishes were fishes......
November's CD Mixes of the Month
Tonight, a sad and unprecedented event. Owing to the annual SFWA cocktail party in Manhattan, I will miss a CD...
Necessary insignificance
Hendrik Hertzberg's "Talk of the Town" piece on Harriet Miers is well worth reading in full. It concludes: Sinking Miers's nomination would give Democrats the satisfaction of dealing Bush a...