A bunch of good stuff from Slate...
A brief bit on the ID forces in Utah
A particularly depressing story about Kansas. I really wish Phil Kline would just shut up. Because his brand of moronism is particularly dangerous. Teens in Kansas, remember: no groping. It's a crime.
This piece doesn't focus exclusively on Kansas, but there's enough Kansas in there to make me even more depressed about the state of my previous State. Galileo Groupies Now the miscreant ID minions are trying to claim Galileo as their very own hero. I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't read about it. Who would ever come up with something like this? Those ID minions really put the "create" in creationism. Jerks. Leave Galileo alone, dammit!
And finally, here's a piece on the new fashion of claiming boys are the gender more at risk, and all the attention to girls is totally messing up their lives. This is a piece I wish I'd written; it so well dissects what is really going on in all this debate. I am particularly envious of what a good job Ann Hulbert does in skewering our culture's tendency to believe that a PET scan is all you need to know about immutable gender-linked traits and abilities. She delightfully analyzes something that has always annoyed me in the ever-more-elaborate scientific hunt for evidence of some kind of difference between the genders that can be yammered about: no matter what the difference is, it always seems to come out better for males, even when it supposedly is something that disadvantages them - e.g., Newsweek tells us that the supposedly inefficent male brain gives rise to "kinetic, disorganized, maddening and sometimes brilliant behavior". You'll love her comeback. I won't spoil it - go read the piece. It's good.
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