Ok, NOW i'm pissed at this S.o.B.

The Dover board should gracefully accept a donation of 23 books to its library by a Florida group called DebunkCreation.

The books, by preeminent scientists such as Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins, have been received by the district, but officials say they need to decide whether they're appropriate for the school library. Superintendent Richard Nilsen said the books have to be reviewed to make sure they're scientifically accurate.

-- Source; [I'm still trying to independently verify that he actually said something to this effect.]

Let me get this straight you stupid hack. You take 65 copies of Of Pandas and People, a work which has been scientifically criticized literally to death as having no intrinsic scientific accuracy or value (and has even been withdrawn by the author and the Discovery Institute as being irrelevant to the current "theory", such as it is, of ID), without question and even put it on the recommended reading list.

Yet you say that works by the most respecticted scientific minds of the 20th century have be "reviewed" for accuracy?

By whom? The same science-curriculum committee whose recommendations you've already ignored for the sake of your religion?

I can't wait for Dover to lose this lawsuit.

I want this asshole to pay every single dime of the county's legal fees. Taxpayers shouldn't have to suffer for this guy's absolute stupidity, especially not those who didn't vote for him.

update: all of those books by 20th century scientists were accepted by the reviewing committee and are now in the high school library in the county.

Ok, so what CAN we teach these days?

It was bad enough last decade when teachers couldn't point out student's mistakes for fear of hurting their "self-esteem". 

Now we can't criticize because we might offend their religious and political sensibilities?

Are parents today THAT controlling that they have to breed their kids to believe EXACTLY the same things that they believe or they feel themselves failures as parents?  Are they that out of touch with reality that they feel any attempt to present them with valid and factual evidence for an alternative is "pushing a political agenda" and "corrupting my children's upbringing" and all this crap?

Thanks to my education, I share neither of my parents beliefs in totality, and neither of my parents consider me in any way a failure, a loss, a "doomed soul", much less a "threat to our way of life or survival as a culture or society".  Go fig.

from today's B.C., Wiley's Dictionary

sermon, n., An inspired message directed mainly at those who are not in attendance.