Johnny Coli

Professor PZ Meyers' excellent science blog Pharyngula helped save the Cinncy Zoo from unwittingly legitimizing the Christianists' crackpot creationism nonsense. His post Shame On The Cinncinati Zoo late Sunday evening generated a lot of calls and emails to the zoo. Seems like science and common sense prevailed over ignorance once again. Here's his victory post today...Boo Hoo. He makes some great points, too many to quote in a post so just visit his blog. Meyers is one of the most vocal debunkers of the religious sham that is creationism/intelligent design.

That's what is probably the most frustrating. They really had everything going for them this season as far as getting to the playoffs was concerned. Playing a soft NFCW, mediocre NYJ and miami (at least on paper) and Brady getting knocked out for the season in week 1. I think Jauron et al really squandered a great opportunity to turn this franchise around. Jesus, man, they were freaking 5-1 and rolling. Now they're out of it and reeling. No excuse for that level of incompetence. None.

Pathetic

Nope. Jauron is happy to bomb threes while the kid with Down Syndrome has the nuts to take it to the hoop and mix it up in the paint. Jauron ball isn't predicated on physically beating your opponent. Its all about keeping it close and not getting dirty. He might not hit every three, but he'll hit enough to make it look close in the final score. If you aren't willing to take it to the hoop against a kid with Down Syndrome, you're never going to beat his older brother...or something like that.

Why not recite parts of the US Constitution, then? I don't think for one second that kids feel all warm inside for their country by being forced to recite a bunch of words as if in a trance to start the school day.

It represents freedom to think and act freely, without being forced to do so. How is mandatory recitation by six-year-olds espousing freedom?

Seems to me that forcing grade-school age kids to recite like unthinking zombies a pledge to a piece of cloth is antithetical to the idea that it represents.

Happy B-day! Congrats on your team crushing the Pats* yesterday!

Disagree again. There's no dispute in "natural" CO2 fluctuations over long periods of time. Humans don't have to be the cause of all of it. However, human activity could easily have provided the tipping point. I believe the evidence from multiple scientific areas is there. Natural temporal fluctuations do not account for the significant changes taking place. You aren't convinced. I am.

I've got to disagree . I think the evidence (I'm talking the vast amount of evidence from multiple scientific disciplines that are affected by global warming) are too compelling to ignore. They all point to a significant man-made component contributing to global warming. I'll let others do their own PubMed search, but there just isn't the "noise" in the literature suggesting otherwise.

After his fantasy example I'm pretty sure any link would be NSFW.

You are not mistaken. I believe some are even taking the position that torture is perfectly acceptable, even though it doesn't work.

You'd be asking the SC to rule on legislation or law that doesn't exist, which they cannot do. If a particular ballot question doesn't pass then its constitutionality is moot.

Stunning. You realize that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychiatric Association both back same-sex adoption? The rest of your post fantasy is almost too ridiculous to comment on.

Where'd they attach the tube that allows them to drain her of bile?

Via Miami Herald Florida ban on gay adoptions ruled unconstitutional The FLA AG is going to appeal it, and whichever way the Appellate Court rules it will probably get heard in the Florida Supreme Court. In any event, one more brick in the bigot wall appears to be coming down.

Didn't take it as a cheap shot. Punk and hardcore isn't for everyone. But I'm sure those that are would dig them.

Only a third of Trent's completions went to RBs in this past game. That's an improvement.

And I have no doubt that in the not-too-distant future Americans of any race and sexual orientation will look back and see this nonsense for what it is...bigotry. Gay people will be serving and dying for their country without having to pretend to be straight, and gay people will be able to marry and call it marriage in every state. People will look back and wonder what all the fuss is about.

You are wrong. While percentage of eligible voters that cast ballots remained roughly the same as 2004, more actual ballots were cast in this election than in any previous election by what will probably be 7 million more than 2004, once all election tabulations are finished and validated. There are too many links to post. You are right about your party, though. There were several percentage points of GOP-registered voters who succumbed to despair and blew off voting in this election. Better luck next time when you trot out Palin, Romney or Gingrich.

America is already reeling from health costs. Both patients and hospitals. Via Newsweek... No one in America should be one catastrophic illness or accident away from financial ruin for themselves and their family. No one.

To each his own, El Decano. I can't be the only person on this board that would rather hear Die Kreuzen than Hot Tuna.

You only have to choose which one gets watched "live."

Three more years of futility on tap, Bill. I'm not going to let reality get in the way of a great time.

Boston has had this since I moved here in '89. Star mkt, Shaws, Bread and Circus. Pretty standard in these parts. We've also had home delivery of groceries for over a decade.