Excellent New Yorker journalist George Packer writes an insightful post about his visit to the new Creation Museum in Kentucky:
The simulation serves a primitive ideology known as “young-earth creationism,” which promote the idea that the earth is just over six thousand years old and that the fossil record appeared after the Flood, around 4300 B.C. […]

Two great ads have appeared in recent weeks pointing out the harm caused to our country and our fellow citizens by continuing to follow the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” policy and the failure of our government to yet provide hate-crimes protection to the GLBT community, respectively.
[Hotel Tango: Sam Smoot]

Finally! Evidence that evolution is false!

Pfffft.

Texas Monthly has released its Best and Worst Legislators for 2007 list.
The Best:
Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas
Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas
Byron Cook, R-Corsicana
Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Mesquite
Scott Hochberg, D-Houston
Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham
Jerry Madden, R-Plano
Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan
Sylvester Turner, D-Houston (!!!)
Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands
The Worst:
Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth
Warren Chisum, R-Pampa
Speak Tom Craddick, R-Midland
Lite Gov. David Dewhurst, R
Sen. Tony Fraser, R-Marble […]

Interesting article in today’s The American Prospect online. A new study says the more secular residents there are in a neighborhood, the more conservative their religious neighbors become.
Let’s say you’re a progressive who isn’t religious, and you aren’t afraid to say so. You’ve long since cast off the beliefs your parents held, and you never […]

There seems to be a bit of a fight going on in the Texas political blogosphere regarding whether or not a Hillary nomination would harm down-ballot candidates. While I’m not really too interested in getting into the debate, I personally hope Hillary is not the Democratic candidate for president in 2008. I’m sick of dynasties […]

Ector County Independent School District has hired Liberty Legal Institute, a Plano-based religious-right litigation group, to represent the district in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the district’s use of the controversial, Chuck Norris-endorsed National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools Bible course. (By the way, NCBCPS is the worst […]

Caption me.

This kind of shit sickens me:
After complaints by a government watchdog group, the Air Force and the Army partially distanced themselves yesterday from a three-day evangelical Christian event this weekend at a Georgia theme park.
The Memorial Day weekend “Salute to the Troops” celebration at Stone Mountain Park is sponsored by Task Force Patriot USA, a […]

From NPR:
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73.
It’s really sad when you rejoice over the death of another. I’m certain there will […]