I was just thinking we haven’t had a good excommunication since Galileo
The only reliable bit about the Star Tribune, other than Katherine Kersten will provide some laughs to anyone who can think, is the cartoons of editorial cartoonist Steve Sack. This guy has gone too long without a Pulitzer prize.
Today’s cartoon does the best job of sending up the “intelligent design” idiots I’ve seen in a long time.
My favorite columnist Paul Krugman follows on in today’s NY Times. Krugman makes some great points: that the purveyers of the pseudo science of “intelligent design” are motivated by the same goals as the “economists” who have given us Supply Side Economics. Those guys, along with the conservative-funded think tanks who claim that global warming is a myth, are just two sides of the same coin.
And what’s on the faces of that coin? Greed and political gain, baby. Heads they win, tails we lose.
Intellectual honesty is under constant attack, and the bad guys are winning. Pretty soon, we won’t even have to have peer reviewed science experiments or economists with actual data to tell us what’s what in the world.
Never mind the university libraries full of all those stuffy academic journals, all we’ll need is a subsciption to the Wall Street Journal.
It will be the the repository for the best science all those coins can buy.
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