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Word comes that these two giants have passed. Salinger, best known as a literary recluse, was 91. Zinn, a historian who rejected the notion that history is written by the victors, was 87.

Salinger's contributions to literature are beyond measure. His book, Catcher in the Rye, is easily in the American canon of literary works and a seminal statement on the American condition and spirit. Yet, he was best known for never granting interviews and maintaining his privacy.

Zinn was more outgoing. His major work, A People's History of the United States, was a landmark history, telling history from the point of view of the common man, rather than the elite.

He was also a fan of my friend, and former colleague, Lauri Lebo and her book, The Devil In Dover, an examination of the fight over intelligent design in the Dover schools.

They are gone, but their work will live on.

So the feds have indicted home run king Barry Bonds on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, the result of a four-year-long investigation.

Didn't see that coming.

You know all about that. But what's interesting is that, if you recall, a couple of years ago, a couple of former Dover Area school board members were accused, by a federal judge, of lying in court in the as-seen-on-TV Dover Panda Trial.

The judge, in his devastating opinion, pretty much said that the former school board members committed perjury, lying under oath specifically about the purchase of the unintelligent design books that appeared in the Dover High library.

Whatever happened with that?

By MIKE
ARGENTO

There is an irony buried deep under the vitriol, idiocy, slander, vileness, ignorance, stupidity and simply breathtaking inanity that passes for the contribution to the public discourse of an alleged carbon-based life form that goes by the name of Ann Coulter.

Of course, you’ve heard about this vile life-support system for a mane of blonde hair. She’s been all over the media, spreading her poison, the vaguely human counterpart of a Gila monster, except with colder blood. It’s amusing that one of her complaints about what she calls the liberal media establishment is that it gives short-shrift to morons like herself who seek airtime to inflict a toxic stew of idiocies masquerading as ideas upon an unsuspecting public.

Her latest missive — I won’t name it because it doesn’t need the publicity — is yet another of her fact-free exercises in what comedian Stephen Colbert calls truthiness, which is essentially cattle excrement that tries to pass itself off as truth.

A sort of evolutionary love story... a really icky evolutionary love story....

In this installment, intelligent design creationism meets the philosphy of Hugh Heffner.
Seriously.
More after the jump.

By MIKE
ARGENTO

As a purveyor of used words, I try to keep up with developments in the American lexicon, but it’s hard considering that, until recently, I had no idea what badunkadunks were, and now I know and my life is so much richer.

And up to now, I thought muffin tops were, well, the tops of muffins.

Turns out badunkadunks and muffin tops are kind of related.

What do I know?

By MIKE
ARGENTO

The day after federal Judge John E. Jones smacked Dover into the 21st century, I was having lunch at the diner with some colleagues when discussion, as would be expected, turned to the judge’s ruling in the case over the inclusion of what will heretofore be referred to as unintelligent design in the Dover biology curriculum.

By MIKE
ARGENTO

Just wait until Pat Robertson gets a load of this.

If you thought the election and the removal of that inflamed boil on democracy that was the Dover school board had doomed Dover to an eternity of perdition, filled with pain and suffering and the lamentations of the damned echoing over a Muzak-like soundtrack of Britney, Clay and other soulless pap, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Who would have guessed a clean sweep?

The Panda trial wound up Friday, finally. The judge said he hopes to render a decision by the end of the year. So for now, we'll have to make do with the closing arguments and just one more mention of bacterial flagella and the Big Bang.

Here is my column on Thursday's goings on in the Dover Panda Trial. An exciting day during which we learned the bubonic plague killed 200 million people and got to witness the return of our old friend the bacterial flagellum...

Thoughts on Wednesday's Dover Panda Trial testimon...

Thoughts on Monday's testimony by Alan Bonsell...

Thoughts on the Dover Panda Trial...

Here's what I wrote about the Dover Panda Trial about Thursday's testimony...

May the sauce be with you.

By MIKE ARGENTO

HARRISBURG — If you’ve been waiting for a brand, spanking new edition of "Of Pandas and People," your wait is nearly over.

The folks who brought us “Of Pandas and People,� a volume of intelligent design creationism gospel, are busy at work on Pandas 3.0.

And by busy at work, I mean they dusted off the old "find and replace" function of their word processing program.

By MIKE ARGENTO

The Thomas More Law Center is founded on the premise of defending and promoting the religious freedom of Christians.

Not all Christians. Christians who believe in separation of church and state — and there are a lot of them — can go to hell, as far as they’re concerned.

BY MIKE ARGENTO

HARRISBURG — Along about the 658th hour of Dr. Barbara Forrest’s stay on the witness stand, during Day Six of the Dover Panda Trial, I started looking for her horns.
Never did see them.

Thoughts on day four of the Dover Panda Trial...