Here's what you can learn about the people in your past on a slow day at work:
1) That your college marketing professor is a leading Intelligent Design proponent using her position on the Ohio state school board to push for the teaching of religion in public schools.
2) That you always thought your old professor was a dipshit and now finally have a good reason for that suspicion.
3) That an old friend's father, an 8-term Congressman and former teacher, has been drafted to unseat said dipshit.
4) That the dipshit just received about as brutal a smackdown as the scientific community at one of the country's leading universities can offer.
More exciting news from the cultural battleground that is Akron, Ohio coming later tonight...
Thanks for that. Sometimes, I need assistance generating a reason why I escaped Ohio at as young an age as possible.
Posted by: DSafetyGuy | October 26, 2006 at 06:16 PM
One of the main reasons I think one should have to take an IQ test before being allowed to vote. She might pass, but a lot wouldn't.
I also think that people who think scientists are closed-minded and ignorant about creation, should not be allowed to use the drugs and medical practices that we develop...go to your priest and pray for that heart blockage to go away.
Posted by: Babu | October 26, 2006 at 07:45 PM
As a proud Buckeye, I truly am sick of these Bible-Thumpers. Quit turning Beautiful Ohio into Alabama.
Posted by: hunior89 | October 27, 2006 at 01:44 AM
"Beautiful Ohio"
Oxymoron.
Posted by: Jack Klompus | October 27, 2006 at 07:58 AM
I had no idea that Case Western Reserve University was a "presitious university".
Posted by: Nominal Me | October 27, 2006 at 09:22 AM
We're here to educate, Nominal:
http://www.case.edu/president/cir/cirrankings.htm
Posted by: Frank | October 27, 2006 at 09:42 AM
Uh Nominal, just because a school isn't on the east coast does not mean it can't be one of the best. Bet you never heard of the Cleveland Clinic either? It is only the top heart hospital in the world and is down the street from Case. There is life outside of NY.
Posted by: SIA | October 27, 2006 at 10:37 AM
I'm with Babu, but I will take it one step further: drop your kid off with the priest and tell him to teach the kid. Then, sit back and pray that they don't dismantle (oops, I mean privatize)Social Security. Because your dumb-ass, intelligent-design taught kid will not be able to suppport you in your old age, unless McDonald's has a serious pay hike.
Posted by: TMan | October 27, 2006 at 01:53 PM
Babu and Tman, right on. I spend a decent amount of time on the Secular Web in the forums and it still amazes me the nuts that come on to defend "Creation science" and continue to make the claim that there is substantial doubt in the scientific community about the Theory of Evolution
Posted by: DFS | October 27, 2006 at 04:54 PM
Totally right fucking on.
I'm a science teacher, and I wouldn't touch intelligent design with a hundred-foot pole. Fortunately, I live in a place (Toronto) which is a little more liberal than the Buckeye state, or the rest of that crazy-ass country of yours.
But yes, this renews my faith in humanity, even if only a little. Hallelujah.
Posted by: H.E. Pennypacker | October 27, 2006 at 06:32 PM
"Fortunately, I live in a place (Toronto) which is a little more liberal than the Buckeye state, or the rest of that crazy-ass country of yours."
Yes, people around the world are always talking about how great it would be to live "The Canadian Dream."
Posted by: Jack Klompus | October 28, 2006 at 10:42 AM