Hilarious
Via BoingBoing: The Defective Yeti writes up the our Iraq debacle as if it were an old school text adventure game.
Ease off on the throttle, Ripley. We've blown the trans-axle, you're just grinding metal.
The best lack all convictions, while the worstOuch! Only my man Yeats can drop it like that!
Are full of passionate intensity.
The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy. It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy.Now I never thought that the IDer's would give up just because a federal judge handed them their asses on a platter, but I did expect they would take some time to learn from their mistakes.
A group of parents are suing their small California school district to force it to cancel a four-week high school elective on intelligent design, creationism and evolution that it is offering as a philosophy course.Now it's true that the Dover decision only forbid teaching ID in public school science classes (quoting from the rulings conclusion) :
The course at Frazier Mountain High School in Lebec, which serves a rural area north of Los Angeles, was proposed by a special education teacher last month and approved by the board of trustees in an emergency meeting on New Year's Day. The 11 parents are seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the course, which is being held during the session that ends on Feb. 3.
As stated, our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.So the philosophy course angle shows that IDers have some ability to learn.
The special education teacher , who is married to the pastor of the local Assemblies of God church amended her syllabus and the course title, from Philosophy of Intelligent Design to Philosophy of Design after parents complained.OK, I'm just gonna go ahead and assume the "meeting" took place during church.
In their suit, the parents said the syllabus originally listed 24 videos to be shown to students, with 23 "produced or distributed by religious organizations and assume a pro-creationist, anti-evolution stance." They said the syllabus listed two evolution experts who would speak to the class. One was a local parent and scientist who said he had already refused the speaking invitation and was now suing the district; the other was Francis H. C. Crick, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, who died in 2004.So the evolution side of the evolution vrs. Creationism debate was going to be handled by:
Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court. Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources.