The lying for Jesus continues...

And on Holy Week at that?

Monday on Larry King:

During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never--never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop 8 was going.

A video on his church's website, 2 weeks before the election:

This is not even just a Christian issue, it's a humanitarian, a human issue, that God created marriage for the purpose of family, love and procreation. So I urge you to support Proposition 8 and pass that word on.

On Texas and school board politics over science == "democracy"

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: DI Flaks Spout Nonsense on New Texas Science Standards:

We would react with derisive laughter at any suggestion that allowing an elected board made up of dentists, real estate agents and bored housewives to determine the curricula in medical school would be a "stirring illustration of democracy at work." Because we know that these fields require specialized knowledge that the average person simply does not have. So why is biology treated differently?

There is one reason, of course. Because the central organizing idea in science is perceived to conflict with deeply held religious views of many people. So we get know-nothings waxing eloquent about how allowing those people to determine the curriculum in biology classes is a wondrous thing. But it's not. It's nothing less than allowing the most ignorant among us to control an institution whose sole purpose is to lessen ignorance.

FBMM Cherry Blossom Tour

FBMM's annual walking tour of the National Capital area is this Saturday.

Teams featured:

• Foggy Bottom Morris Men, Washington, DC
• Albemarle Morris Men, Charlotteville, VA
• Ann Arbor Morris, Ann Arbor, MI
• Cold Barn Morris, Hamilton, ONT
• Kingsessing Morris Men, Philadelphia, PA

Schedule as planned (rain in the morning may affect things, but we try to stay under the canopies near the metro escalator, depending on how p.o.'ed security decides to get).

• 10:30-11:30AM Coffee & Dancing @ Union Station West Carriage Porch - 40 Massachusetts Ave, NE, (alternate dance sun location Columbus Plaza)
  
  
• 11:30-12:45PM The Dubliner (selections from the brunch menu) - 4 F Street, NW, 202.737.3773
• this is a private event (and the place gets crowded in any case)
  
  
• 12:45-1:00PM Process to US Capitol
• 1:00-1:50PM Dance @ US Capitol Lower West Terrace
• (rain location: tour the Capitol Visitor’s Center – no dancing or large bags allowed)
  
  
• 1:50-2:15PM Parade to Hawk ‘n Dove
• 2:15-3:15PM Hawk ‘n Dove (Guiness, Bass, Anchor Steam, Sierra Nevada, Hefeweizen) - 329 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, 202,543.3300
• This is crowded, but open to the public. Here is normally our public pub sing of the day.
  
  
• 3:15-3:30PM Promenade to Eastern Market
• 3:30-4:15PM Dance at Port City Java (opposite Eastern Market) - 701 N. Carolina Ave. SE, 202.543.1819
• a subset will be dancing nearby outside Tunnicliff’s Tavern, 222 7th St. NE 202.544.5680
  
  
• 4:15-4:30PM March to Stanton Park
• 4:30-5:15PM Dance @ Stanton Park, NE - Massachusetts & Maryland Aves @ 5th (rain location Union Pub 201 D St NE or Cap City)
  
  
• 5:15-5:30PM Amble to Capital City Brewing Company (sidewalk dance at cafes on Mass Ave.)
• 5:30-6:15PM Dance @ Cap City Plaza
  
  
• 6:15PM -??? Feast & Pubbing at Cap City, the Postmaster General Suite - private event, as we have the back room.
  

So now you know where to find us...or where to avoid... ;)