I was doing what any red-blooded American should have been doing during the Republican debate last night: drinking in the bar. Luckily, Crooks & Liars taped the best bits.
People have to step back - no, farther - and really think about this: We may have a Republican presidential candidate, a person who may very well, against all good sense, become president, who doesn't believe in evolution. In the 21st century.
We have to all retrace our steps and find out when this bus got so far off the track and sent us this deep into crazy land. Thirty years ago my Catholic priest in Sunday school even admitted to us kids that Adam and Eve weren't real. It wasn't a threat to his spiritual security to accept scientific findings. What the hell has happened to us?
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We may have a Republican presidential candidate, a person who may very well, against all good sense, become president, who doesn't believe in evolution. In the 21st century.
I thought we already did.
At the very least, Bush supports the teaching of "intelligent design" - which makes him either a whacko or willing enough to cater to whackos to put their nonsense on a plane with science. I can't see a difference between the two.
Well, you're right. I think Bush has been more vague about it, saying he thinks "ID" should be taught alongside evolution in schools. That is nuts enough, but it's a whole 'nuther thing for someone to think we may have a prez that would say out loud that he doesn't believe in evolution. That is really really nuts.
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