Tuesday, December 20, 2005

News gems Dec. 20, 2005

No "intelligent design" for biology classes in one Pennsylvania school district. Thank god. The crux of the idiocy represented by "intelligent design" is this: The world is so complex that it must have been created by somebody (god's, of course). Teaching this giant leap of faith in a science classroom is misguided. (News story here.)

NYC commuters fucked, just in time for Christmas. Thank the union for wrecking Christmas for millions of commuters. The union struck now instead of after the holidays to cause the most problems for New Yorkers. I sincerely hope that every single striking worker is fired unceremoniously and replaced with someone who recognizes that the one job benefit outweighing all others is the job itself. (News story here.)

Baby penguin swiped from British zoo. Too bad eBay halted its plan to host the selling of live pets. Well, one hooligan will wake up this morning knowing something the rest of us do not: Do baby penguins, or do they not, taste like chicken. (News story here.)

Iraq's Sunnis cut from same cloth as U.S. liberals. Upon learning they didn't get what they wanted in the recent elections, Sunnis claim fraud. Sound familiar? (News story here.)

Barbie dolls often mutilated by girls. This may explain why most adult serial killers and related psychopaths are men. The girls get out their angst early on. (News story here.)

Stalin wanted to create Tolkien-style Orcs. Old Joe was a very bad dude. And to think American liberals and their communist kin once thought communism was A-OK. Where's Jane Fonda? She wanted these types of commies to rule Vietnam. (News story here.)

LA Times outs NY Times over timing of American spying story. Here's the first line of the LA Times piece: "The New York Times, which knew about the secret wiretaps for more than a year, published because of a reporter's new book, sources say." I'd call it a must read. (News story here.)

Also, read this chronicle of how the NY Times changed its mind about Saddam Hussein, WMD, and whether or not UN approval was necessary to wage war -- when a Republican became president.

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