Sadly, No!

Go read these posts by Kevin Drum, Yglesias and Digby and then c’mon back.

OK, now click below the fold for my response…
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“People should stop worrying about the Christian Right because of something I saw on last week’s Law and Order.”

(No, seriously, that’s the gist of his column.)

President Bush classes it up, old school style:

President Bush is used to taking center stage, even when sharing the dais with other presidents in their own countries. …

After Bush finished, Vike-Freiberga then explained that they would take four questions ? one for each president. Again, Bush tried to interrupt, saying, “Or you can have all four questions to me,” knowing that foreign reporters usually want to use the opportunity to probe the U.S. president.

Vike-Freiberga ignored the remark as she called on a Latvian journalist, and Bush threw his arms up and looked to help from aides offstage. The Latvian journalist said he would prefer to question the U.S. leader, and Bush responded, “Yeah, I thought that might be the case.”

Asshole.

I have an econ. final to study for, but I figured I’d give you guys some wingnuttery to mock in my abscence (or at least until Seb gets back from fucking Oskar, the America-hating German goat).

While reading Massimo Pigliucci’s Denying Evolution, I came upon the following graphic, which is used by creationists to illustrate how teaching evolution leads to… well, everything they think is evil:

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out how sex education, dirty books, genetic engineering, hard rock, racism, terrorism, women’s liberation, and inflation are all connected. Oh, AND you have to show how they’re all caused by teaching evolution. Good luck.

Are there any Sadly, No! readers out there who grew up on a farm? If so, you might want to check out Alan Colmes’ interview with anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley:

Alan Colmes: “You had sex with animals?”

Neal Horsley: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.”

AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”

NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”

AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?”

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”

So how about it, you country bumpkins? Did y’all screw farm animals growing up? Or is Horsley (oh, what an ironic name) full of it?

(Thanks to Kristin for the tip.

David Frum, the older, slightly less crazy Adam Yoshida of Canada, writes:

Under his [Gordon Brown’s] leadership, the British economy – now the most dynamic of any in western Europe – would ossify into the same low-growth, low-employment rigidity as France and Germany. [Emphasis added.]

Hmm, Britain’s unemployment rate is 4.7%. Ireland’s is 4.3%, Luxembourg’s 4.5%, and Austria’s 4.6%. (PDF)

Britain’s economy is expected to grow by 2.2% in 2005. Sweden’s by 3%, Finland’s by 2.7%, Denmark’s by 2.3%, Greece’s by 3.5%, Ireland’s by 3.3%, Luxembourg’s by 2.3%, and, well, you get the picture. (link)

At 1.3%, Britain’s inflation rate in 2004 was higher than Finland’s, Sweden’s, Denmark’s and Norway’s. (link)

It’s at times like this we like to remember that Frum once wrote to complain about our “carelessly embarrassing” work.

The Editors:

This is not a Christian movement – sure, there are Christians in it, but most Americans are nominally Christian, so that can hardly be considered a distinguishing feature. It is an anti-modern, theocratic, and radical right-wing movement. Calling it “Christian” movement is not only inaccurate, but it cedes the middle ground to this fringe freak show. This was obvious with Schaivo, it is obvious in Kansas, and it’s obvious to anyone who isn?t one with them or paid to do their PR. Freak. Show. There?s nothing particularly Christian going on here, and, if I were Christian, I?d prefer that my faith not be tied to this lunacy.

Would it be trite to say “Hehindeedreadthewholething?”

Our buddy Dennis Prager has written another classic column about Judeo-Christian values, and while I normally find Dennis’ rants against college lesbians amusing, this one is just frightening. Click below the fold, if you dare…
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My recent obsession with trashing creationists has sadly left our friends at Renew America feeling neglected- I don’t think I’ve made fun of them for an entire week (well, I made fun of Sharon Hughes, but that was for being a creationist, so it doesn’t count).

Damn shame too, ’cause they’ve really been on fire lately. Let’s start with our old friend Barbara Stock and her column “The Power of Islam”:
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My friend Kristy noted that I’ve been on an “evolution kick” lately. And it’s true- watching fundamentalist goobers trying to push their pseudo-science onto Kansas’ schools on the tax payers’ dime really pisses me off.

But unfortunately, my obsession with Kansas’ “Scopes Trial II” has let a lot of high-quality wingnuttery go by the wayside. Ergo, I will not blog about evolution until the “trial” concludes on Wednesday. In the meantime, be sure to check out these blogs, which write about evolution (and science in general) far more knowledgably than I can:

–Pharyngula, by the estimable PZ Myers, who is far and away the funniest biology professor ever.

–Thoughts from Kansas: the blog of a Kansas biologist who’s attending the hearings.

–Red State Rabble: Another brave Kansan braving the deadly waters of the ID Twlight Zone. Very thorough, very well-written.

–The Panda’s Thumb: A large group blog dedicated to evolutionary biology in general.

Also, be sure to read John Cole, who’s predictably (and entertainingly) outraged by the whole ordeal.