Former Governor of Illinois George Ryan has been convicted on all counts of basically running a storefront out of his office. He's Republican. Not that I think Democrats don't do the same thing, and often, but the Republicans make such a big deal out of NOT being Democrats--that they are,…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_sc/cottontails What's next on the endangered list? Mosquitoes?
Here’s a partial list: Wings on flightless birds. Small Leg bones on modern whales. Eyes that are found in blind animals such as Astyanax fasciatus (a species of fish) and moles. Because I wanted to know more about these useless animal parts, I checked some popular creationist web sites: Investigating…
Does it all seem like déjà vu? It should. Most of us first heard the unfolding national story while sitting on our parents’ laps, courtesy of Dr. Seuss. A con artist comes to town to exploit a glaring weakness: the willingness of the citizens to act out of bigotry. In…
One of the Sunday morning pundits today (4/16/06) made an excellent point. He observed that President Bush has refused to give a firm date for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, because, Bush says, such an action would embolden the terrorists to just wait us out. However, Bush then ignored this principle…