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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

How many Bush Administration Officials does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Joke of the Day. Supposedly circulated by "Clinton alumni,"[The Stakeholder]: How many Bush Administration Officials does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

• One to deny that a light bulb needs to be replaced.

• One to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the light bulb.

• One to blame the previous administration for the need of a new light bulb.

• One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs.

• One to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton one million dollars for a light bulb.

• One to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the light bulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag.

• And finally, one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

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Americans Believe Biblical Literalism?

Biblical Literalism. [Crooked Timber]

Crooked Timber has a good small analysis of the recent ABC poll that shows that 61% of Americans believe the world was created in 7 days, as said in the Bible (though there are different versions of the story in the Bible, and they didn't ask which one people believed). I think the reason that so many answered it thus is that they don't know the meaning of the word "literal." This letter on The Smoking Gun reinforces that notion.

I think that's the charitable view towards the American public and the public school system: that they don't know the definition of a specific word is a much better interpretation than that they believe some old magic story about creation of the world in preference to hundreds of years of science.

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