random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  If people feel they understand the world around them, or probably, even if they have the conviction that they could understand it if they wanted to, then and only then are they able to feel that they can make a difference through their decisions and activities. Without this conviction, people usually live with the sense of being eternally pushed around by alien events and forces.

tagged: empowerment, education, understanding science
  —Frank Oppenheimer, Richard Brooks, Exploratorium.

morning tea reading

Thursday, October 27th, 2005 8:58 am

  • The Rude Pundit tears it up on comparisons between the Clinton Whitewater-MonicaGate scandal, and the Bush-Cheney Fraudulently-Induced-Then-Bungled-Iraq-War-PlameGate scandal. [link from sideshow]

  • debate over intelligent design: the abstract factory points out that intelligent design advocates, like pretty much every other human being, work within a science-based framework when it really matters to them personally. [link from sideshow]

  • Fafblog: damn you grover norquist, for accepting money from the gays:

    Yes, as all right-thinking Gibletsians know, gays are not merely plotting to destroy the family. They are plotting to corrupt the global economy with mass monetary queerosity! Even now they are introducing creeping fruitism into our proudly heterosexual stock market and pansying up our once-butch interest rate! They even handle the same money we do, getting microscopic particles of gay all over our precious national currency! Did Abraham Lincoln just wink at Giblets from the five dollar bill? Get away from me, Honest Abe! Giblets doesn’t need your mincey forfathery leering and your log cabin jokes!

algorithmically similar posts:

» sunday morning reading, 2005-10-29 (score:16)
» the missing voices in the sex scandals, 2008-03-22 (score:12)
» potential evidence for intelligent design, 2005-11-10 (score:11)
» ID advocate admits it ‘has no content’, 2005-07-28 (score:11)

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