In The Onion: When asked to comment on our record budget deficit, “Michael Canty” nails it:
“It’s all the Democrats’ fault! Or it’s all the Republicans’ fault–I’m not sure. What we know for certain, according to everything I’ve heard, is that it’s entirely t…he fault of one of them or the other and certainly not due to any combination of the two.”
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There was something about this Obama coin ad that popped up right after the election that reminded me of a commercial for a 1970′s soul music LP**. My husband didn’t agree. Please someone help me remember what old ad campaign this reminds me of…
Do you ever wonder how these people do it, who seem to be poised to make money on the result of an election (one way or the other)? I wonder who narrated the McCain coin ad that must have been “in the can.” (Ed McMahon might have done the trick.) Another example of this capitalistic industriousness is “That One 08“, up online by the morning after John McCain referred to Barack Obama in a debate as “that one.”
**For you babies in the readership, that stands for “Long Play” – a record “album” that contains many songs, whereas a “45″ was smaller and contained only one song each side.
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In researching our next topic “Faith in the Public Square”, I stumbled on a 2005 study by Jon D. Miller, Eugenie C. Scott and Shinji Okamoto entitled “Public Acceptance of Evolution.” Their study compared 34 industrialized countries on their public acceptance of evolution. The United States was next-to-last, right ahead of Turkey. This is distinctly bad news for mainstream scientists, but distinctly good news for Intelligent Design proponents.
A snip from the authors’ explanation of the results:
First, the structure and beliefs of American fundamentalism historically differ from those of mainstream Protestantism in both the United States and Europe. The biblical literalist focus of fundamentalism in the United States sees Genesis as a true and accurate account of the creation of human life that supersedes any scientific finding or interpretation. In contrast, mainstream Protestant faiths in Europe (and their U.S. counterparts) have viewed Genesis as metaphorical and—like the Catholic Church—have not seen a major contradiction between their faith and the work of Darwin and other scientists.
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“We’re Americans… we’re the only country that can look at a sandwich made of ice cream and chocolate cookies covered with fudge and think… you think we could fry that?
Yes we can.”
–The G-rated portion of Bill Maher’s tribute to America
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