Mike Argento, a York native and graduate of York Suburban Area High School and Penn State, first came to the York Daily Record in 1983. He even had gray hair back then. After stints covering everything from cops to city hall to state government to the environment, he began writing a column for the paper, three times a week, in 1989. His column can be about anything and so is his blog, which encompasses life in York County and beyond. And, for the record, as he told his wife the other night, he wishes people would stop asking him, 'What's wrong with you?' He really doesn't know. Thoughts on the Dover Panda Trial...
Continue reading ID: Out with a Big Bang.
October 2005 Archives
Here's what I wrote about the Dover Panda Trial about Thursday's testimony...
Continue reading Buckingham seesaws on the stand.
Here's my latest Dover Panda Trial column.
May the sauce be with you.
Continue reading The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
By MIKE ARGENTO
HARRISBURG — Somewhere along the journey from obscurity to courtroom No. 2 in the U.S. Middle District Courthouse — this would have been in 2004 — Supt. Richard Nilsen of the Dover Area School District received a memo that indicated that a policy may have been violated during the debate over adoption of the new biology curriculum, the one in dispute now.
Continue reading The red flags were strangely absent.
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.
Continue reading "Sudden appearance" of a new book.
The British magazine The Economist has weighed in on the Dover Panda Trial. Read it here.
Let's see, it refers to the members of the Dover Area School Board as "clueless" and "clods."
At least the writer refrains from calling them "clueless clods."
The Dover Panda Trial has made The Onion.
Respond appropriately.
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.
Continue reading Thursday's Dover Panda Trial Commentary.
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.
Continue reading Wednesday's Dover Panda Trial Commentary.
