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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.
6:18:55 PM Permalink
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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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