Friday, January 30

The guys' weekend at the farm . . . and snow is forecast. We've been waiting for such an eventuality for as long as I remember. Let it snow.

Seven are dead in Afghanistan, and George Bush is visiting chocolate shops saying everyone should spend money to help the economy. What did we do as a nation to deserve this?

Meanwhile, this just in from the Associated Press:

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The state's school superintendent has proposed striking the word evolution from Georgia's science curriculum and replacing it with the phrase "biological changes over time."

The change is included in more than 800 pages of draft revisions to Georgia's curriculum that have been posted by the Department of Education on its Web site. The middle and high school standards are expected to be voted on by the state Board of Education in May, after public feedback.

Superintendent Kathy Cox said the concept of evolution would still be taught under the proposal, but the word would not be used. The proposal would not require schools to buy new textbooks omitting the word evolution and would not prevent teachers from using it.

Cox repeatedly referred to evolution as a "buzzword" Thursday and said the ban was proposed, in part, to alleviate pressure on teachers in socially conservative areas where parents object to its teaching.

"If teachers across this state, parents across this state say, 'This is not what we want,' then we'll change it," said Cox, a Republican elected in 2002.

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The Republican Party is an embarrassment. It's 2004 and we have a President that says that the jury is still out on global warming and that he is not sure that evolution has any scientific backing. What a total idiot. That's about the nicest thing I can say about it. I'm just appalled.