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.
Federal Judge John E. Jones III issued a scathing ruling in the Dover case today. ID is not science, he ruled. The Dover school board was populated with liars. And it gets better from there.
Here are some phrases I picked up, just skimming through:
"Bonsell repeatedly failed to testify in a truthful manner..."
Former school board members "either testified inconsistently, or lied outright under oath."
Buckingham and Bonsell "lied."
The former board displayed "striking ignorance."
And it gets worse...
Read all about it in Wednesday's Daily Record...
By MIKE ARGENTO
Like a lot of people, I frequently scan the classified ads in search of meaning, cheap laughs and a kind of voyeuristic look into what passes for a community around here.
Courtesy of an alert reader, here is a Holday Party Excuse Generator at your service.
Personally, I do not condone or endorse making up bogus excuses to get out of things you don't want to do. I'd say more about it, but at the moment, I have to go to a dentist appointment. Yeah, that's it, the dentist...
Christmas letters. Gotta love 'em.
But they're a lot of work.
No need to fret. After the jump is a handy form that will permit you to keep friends, acquaintances and complete strangers fully abreast of the goings on in your life...
By MIKE ARGENTO
Dec 12, 2005 — The Los Angeles Times reported that the Pentagon's "Information Operations Task Force" has shelled out millions of dollars "to bribe Iraqi reporters and broadcasters to run phony news stories produced by the U.S. military and distributed by a private American contractor, the Washington-based Lincoln Group."
Conservatives are going bonkers over what they perceive to be a war on Christmas. Really, it's kind of silly. Christmas seems to be in fine shape and these people have only succeeded in making saying "Merry Christmas" a political statement -- something that causes a lot more harm to Christmas than the clerk at Target wishing you happy holidays. .
Shameful.
Esepecially when you consider the real war. The war on Festivus.
City slogans have been in for some rough times. San Diego, for one, no longer calls itself America's Greatest City because one of its congressmen is going to jail for taking bribes. Big deal. York had a mayor indicted for murder. Maybe we can call ourselves America's Greatest City, now that it's available.
More after the jump...
My take on the settlement in the Lillie Belle Allen civil lawsuit appears after the jump.
The family got $2 million and a sort of apology, and we get another committee. Also, how can you have a press conference without the big check?
Sounds about right.
The newest sporting phenomena to sweep the planet, after the jump...
By MIKE
ARGENTO
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican from Philadelphia, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and an Eagles fan, this week threatened to haul the Philadelphia Eagles before his committee to investigate the team’s treatment of star wide receiver Terrell Owens. He backed off the threat almost immediately when it was pointed out that the Judiciary Committee may have more important things to deal with. ...
What do Dover and Aaron Burr have in common?
Find out after the jump...
