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Friday Palin: Question of the Week

Who is writing these editorials under her name? Because it clearly isn't her. Try to imagine Teh Cuda writing this all on her own, I dare you:

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue. 

Sarah Palin doesn't know how to spell "articulate", let alone what it means, although it is amusingly ironic to see that word in the first graf of an op-ed supposedly written by the least articulate figure in American politics today - which all by itself is saying something since she's up against the likes of John Cornyn, Jim Inhofe, Jittery Jim DeMint, and a host of Bushian Texans who wouldn't know an apostrophe from a ligature.

Danae Explains: Science for Science-Haters

The question has been asked over and over. "How can conservatives believe so much so-called 'science' that isn't true?"

Wiley has the answer. They've developed the Doctrine of Pre-Conceptual Science.

How does it work? Well, take, let's say, evolution. How can conservative fundamentalists turn their backs on the mountains of evidence accumulated since Darwin? Enter PCS. It's a snap. Lookl hopw easy it is to disprove even so ancient and accepted a physical law as, well, gravity. Piece o cake.

And in case you think any of this is an exaggeration, here's a little John H Calvert at the Intelligent Design Network.

The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. ID is thus a scientific disagreement with the core claim of evolutionary theory that the apparent design of living systems is an illusion.

See how easy it is? PCS can be applied to any science that you find annoying or that doesn't fit your preferred worldview, PLUS you get to use other people as guinea pigs for your theory. Remember the Neoconservative Economic Regulation-Free Zone Theory? Thousands lost their lives for the Free Market in Iraq and millions lost their jobs on behalf of the Stock Market in the US but NOT ONE conservative has served on the front line over there or the bread line over here for as much as 5 minutes thanx to Wingnut Welfare.

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David Brooks & Genius: Two Things You'll Never Again See in the Same Sentence

I was going to ignore this, yet another ridiculous column from the NYT's most overpaid conservative wingnut warrior masquerading as a centrist, but then today I note that since it was written (Thurs) it has become the #1 emailed NYT article.

What??!!

We're hoping it's #1 because it's so unintentionally funny but the depressing possibility exists that it's #1 because a lot of misguided people think either that he's right or that he's repeating genuine science. Um, he's doing neither of the two.

Obama, The Musical! (The Republican Scene)

Let's face it, it's inevitable. It's going to happen, probably sooner than we think. Herewith I have a suggestion for a scene using an old song because I don't think any modern musical composer could come up with anything that's more on the mark.