 | Thoughts from Kansas |  Relevance: 24.31 |
| Message to Disco. Inst.: Learn to read Johnny West, associate director of the Disco. Inst.'s Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, is upset with the New York Times:
Message to New York Times Editorial Page: Hire a Fact-Checker ... The Times apparently hasn't been paying attention to Texas during the past decade, because ... the "strengths [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 19.00 |
| Disco. Inst. builds Guillermo Gonzalez a telescope Disco. Inst. flack Rob Crowther is crowing about a grant they gave to Guillermo Gonzalez. Gonzalez was the Iowa State University astronomer who got tied in with the ID creationists at Disco. and with the old-earth creationists at Reasons To Believe, then was denied tenure when his publication rate dropped precipitously. Disco. responded to the tenure denial by insisting simultaneously that Go [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 16.46 |
| Disco. Inst. blogger: Ban marriage Martin Cothran, blogger for the Disco. Inst., opposes gay marriage, and wonders:
If their relationships are already stable, then why do they need to be stabilized?Compelling logic. Clearly, marriage is useless.
Of course, evidence suggests that marriage actually does have a stabilizing effect on people. And gay people, it turns out, are people, too. [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 15.63 |
| Disco. Inst. dissembles about Texas science standards, again I imagine Casey Luskin and Anika Smith sitting in a dark room together. The mirror ball spins as these Disco. titans take the floor for a podcast about the Texas science standards (aka TEKS: Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills). You'll recall that I tripped up some of Disco.'s fancy footwork last Friday, but these two sashay right past the evidence.
At issue is a Disco.-inspired standa [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 15.48 |
| Disco. Inst. blogger: Straight people don't have stable relationships It can be difficult to understand creationists at times. Last week, I observed Disco. Inst. blogger Martin Cothran wondered: "If their relationships are already stable, then why do they need to be stabilized?" Cothran only applies that logic to teh gays, of course. I pointed out that the same logic applies to straight folk, and that he seemed to be arguing against marriage per se. [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 13.62 |
| Debating "intelligent design" A site called Opposingviews.com has asked the question: Does intelligent design have merit?
Defending the proposition that it does, the Disco. Inst. responds officially and through two sockpuppets: Michael Behe, and Jay Richards (both Disco. fellows). Taking the position that it doesn't, we've got the National Center for Science Education, Americans United for Separation of Church and [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 13.10 |
| Disco. Inst. tapdances, accuses me of unspecified "errors" Disco. DJ Rob Crowther is upset.
A few days ago, I pointed out that his underling, Casey Luskin, has repeatedly misrepresented the Texas science standards revisions, in particular alleging conflicts of interest which do not exist while ignoring the profound conflicts of interest affecting expert reviewers Stephen Meyer (of the Discovery Institute) and Ralph Seelke.
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 12.45 |
| Is the Disco. Inst. agreeing that ID is religion? Disco. vocalist Rob Crowther wonders What Part of "shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine" do his opponents not understand? Writing about SB 733, a creationist bill winging its way to Governor Bobby "The Exorcist II" Jindal, Crowther points out that:
Section 1D of the bill clearly states that it "shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine, prom [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 10.75 |
Not just a river  Disco. Inst. head Bruce Chapman takes a dip in denial. Global warming isn't an issue, he seems to believe, because:
We're having the coldest winter, er, spring in 100 years in the great Northwest. There's new snow in the mountain passes and even freak frosty flecks in Seattle's hilliy suburbs.Meanwhile, the Arctic is melting at least as fast, if not faster than, [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 10.48 |
 The sound of silence Martin Cothran, bigoted Disco. Inst. blogger and staffer with the Kentucky affiliate of Focus on the Family, is very worried. Having pitched a hissyfit when his bigotry was called bigotry, he is now worried about What McCarthy would do if he were gay. He does this without any jokes at all about Roy Cohn:
That sound you hear may be goosestepping from the Tolerance Police. Now [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 10.39 |
| How pleasant to know Mr. Crowther How pleasant to know Mr. [Crowther]
Who has written such volumes of stuff
Some think him ill-tempered and queer
But a few think him pleasant enough.I can't say I know who those would be, though Mr. Lear would undoubtedly have been worth knowing.
Mr. Crowther, flack for the Disco. Inst., is not nearly as funny as Edward Lear, alas. In his latest semiliterate scrawling [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | Relevance: 9.806 |
| Simple answers to stupid questions Disco. Inst. blogger and staff member for the Kentucky affiliate of Focus on the Family wonders:
Are gay rights groups turning into hate groups?No.
This has been your simple answer to another stupid question.
Cothran's argument is actually much stupider than it might seem:
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| Joystiq | Relevance: 7.514 |
| Bungie: Halo can learn from Call of Duty 4 Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters
"We have a lot to learn from their success too, they did some very innovative things to keep people going and their experience-rewards [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 7.438 |
| Nerdblog.Net | Relevance: 7.179 |
| MS products just too cool to comprehend, say MS geeks Windows Vista by any other name
When the product sucks but you can’t bring yourself to admit the horrible truth, what’s the next logical step? Blame the message, the messenger or the recipient of the message. Simple.
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