'Vote early and vote often,' the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern citites. - William Porcher Miles, speech in the House of Reps., March 31, 1858
As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? - William Marcy Tweed (Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall) on the ballot in NYC (November 1871)
Yes, I voted today. If you voted, great. If you didn't, you can keep your kvetchin to yourselves.
In other election news, Kansas does it again:
Risking the kind of nationwide ridicule it faced six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.
The 6-4 vote was a victory for “intelligent design” advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.
Critics of the new language charged that it was an attempt to inject God and creationism into public schools, in violation of the constitutional ban on state establishment of religion.
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The new standards say high school students must understand major evolutionary concepts. But they also declare that the basic Darwinian theory that all life had a common origin and that natural chemical processes created the building blocks of life have been challenged in recent years by fossil evidence and molecular biology.
In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.
This link doesn't say what is the new definition of science, but I am right curious about it. I'd go looking for more info and write more about this, but Typepad ate the first attempt at this post and I don't feel like doing it all over again.
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