Thursday, April 07, 2005

Obama in Kewanee Popular place to be While we are talking about Kewanee, I thought I'd mention that Barack Obama visited Kewanee a couple of weeks ago. If you haven't been to Kewanee lately, it looks like you better go. Kim and I are on the way right now. 10:41:41 PM  permanent link  Reader Comments []  Google It! What Do Old Bears Do? Play Basketball in Kewanee [posted by Troy] So, some former Chicago Bears played basketball in Kewanee, Illinois to raise some money for charity or something. Well, you can imagine that the residents of Kewanee at to Rep-prus-zent! This included Tony, my brother-in-law. You can read about the game here: A Full Program Sunday. Here are a few images: The Bears bench included Otis Wilson. This is seconds before Tony stuffed Steve Edwards. 10:32:42 PM  permanent link  Reader Comments []  Google It! By the Mighty Mississippi... Two Augustana Stories... [posted by Augie Al] Two stories about good old Augustana came to my inbox today. One is a good story about how great Augustana grads can be. The other is an example of stupid Augustana College students. Are they stupid for what they did or just studne for getting cauth? You decide. Good Augustana Story Dumb student story 10:25:15 PM  permanent link  Reader Comments []  Google It! Liberals In Colleges New York Times [posted by Troy] Here is an interesting Times article about the fact that there are so many liberals in higher education. Republicans claim that this is because of bias in education. The article makes other points. Mainly, Republicans are a party of "theocracy." i.e. Republicans follow dogma and not their brains. Here's a quote from the article: In its April Fools' Day issue, Scientific American published a spoof editorial in which it apologized for endorsing the theory of evolution just because it's "the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time," saying that "as editors, we had no business being persuaded by mountains of evidence." And it conceded that it had succumbed "to the easy mistake of thinking that scientists understand their fields better than, say, U.S. senators or best-selling novelists do." The editorial was titled "O.K., We Give Up." But it could just as well have been called "Why So Few Scientists Are Republicans These Days." Thirty years ago, attacks on science came mostly from the left; these days, they come overwhelmingly from the right, and have the backing of leading Republicans. 10:19:22 PM  permanent link  Reader Comments []  Google It!

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