The Binary Circumstance

Georgia State education superintendent Kathy Cox has proposed that schools discontinue the use of the word evolution in their science curriculum.

Why is this a bad idea?

For the same reason that it’s not a good idea to ban the use of the term fucking moron from the English language.

Evolution exists. Fucking morons exist. We needs words to describe things that exist.

If fucking morons like Kathy Cox have their way, the term extinct may apply more often than the term evolution. How did a fucking moron get to be school superintendent anyway?

“Constitution smonstitution.” I can hear Bush and Co. saying it now. Hell, the Congress said it.

Light of Reason links to an article by attorney John C. Bonifaz who writes that the War on Iraq is unconstitutional:

Now more than ever, the Constitution and the rule of law must apply. And, now more than ever, the truth must be told. The first lie about the Iraq war was not that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or ties to Al Qaeda. The first lie told to the American people is that Congress voted for this war.

In the midst of the rushed congressional debate in October 2002, U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.) warned that the resolution under consideration was unconstitutional. “We are handing this over to the President of the United States,” Byrd said. “When we do that, we can put up a sign on the top of this Capitol, and we can say: ‘Gone home. Gone fishing. Out of business.’” Byrd added: “I never thought I would see the day in these forty-four years I have been in this body… when we would cede this kind of power to any president.”

The Iraq war is in direct violation of the United States Constitution. The president and the members of Congress who voted for that October resolution should be held accountable for sending this nation into an illegal war.

It is time to hold up the Constitution to the faces of those who dare to defy it. It is time to demand our country back.

It’s an excellent article about the War Powers Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

On Friday, a German court convicted Armin Meiwes, a.k.a. the German cannibal of manslaughter for the consensual killing and “dismemberment” of a man he met on the Internet.

CNN’s Walter Rodgers said: “Most Germans are aghast yet fascinated at the idea of a cannibal in their midst. This is not supposed to happen in a tidy, democratically ordered German society. And yet it did.”

The Holocaust happened in a tidy, democratically ordered German society, too, didn’t it? The premise of democracy is mob rule and submission to the mob; the premise of socialism is self-sacrifice to the collective. Should we really be surprised when two people sexualize those premises, taking them a little too literally?

For more backgound, see my previous post.

Light of Reason writes that Bush is finally flexing his veto muscle in the face of a proposal to scale back portions of the Patriot Act.

Meanwhile, the administration once again wipes its collective butt with at least one of the Ten Commandments, denying that it ever called Iraq an “imminent threat.”
[This version has #9 as “You Shall Not Commit Purgery.” The Catholic version has #9 as “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife,” but #8 as “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” They also disagree on the which commandment forbids murder. Maybe that’s why Bush missed that one, too. No wonder religion is at the root of so much conflict; they can’t even agree on their basic set of rules.]

In his post about Bush’s new discovery of the veto, Arthur Silber writes:

I swear, if you read about an administration like this one in a novel, you would laugh it off as unbelievable and ludicrous. And yet it’s all true — all too tragically true and being inflicted on every single one of us, day after day after day.

Even more tragic is the fact that we’re letting them inflict it on us..