Ohio Board Undoes Stand on Evolution - New York Times
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 14 — The Ohio Board of Education voted 11 to 4 Tuesday to toss out a mandate that 10th-grade biology classes include critical analysis of evolution and an accompanying model lesson plan, dealing the intelligent design movement its second serious defeat in two [...]
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Chicago Tribune | Beans Recalled; Bird’s Head Found in Can
Yack! No pinto beans for me for a good long while!
And now, I’ve got a song stuck in my head:
My mother told me to put birds in my beans,
birds in my beans, birds in my beans.
Birds in my beans.
And now I can whistle from either [...]
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Apparently, using the gay marriage issue to rally the rabidly religious Right in 2004 wasn’t enough. New for 2006: The brand new Anti Gay Adoption Extravaganza!
I don’t want kids of my own, but I support the right of anyone who does want to have them, by any legal means. And by legal, I mean [...]
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Recently in Barack Obama - U.S. Senator for Illinois’s blog, he posted a reaction to the State of the Union speech, focusing on hybrid cars and the American auto industry. I’ve been meaning to respond to this for a while, because we own a Ford Escape Hybrid.
I was reminded of this vague intention because [...]
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I posted a sermon today that Father Ted gave on the Holy Moly blog. In it, he passed along the difficult news that Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, has entered a rehab facility. If you haven’t any interest in the controversy that the Episcopal Church is has been facing over Bishop Gene’s position [...]
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