Submitted to a Candid World

Warning: the Lousiana legislature is preparing to consider an “academic freedom” bill - HB 1168 - which would allow Louisiana teachers to consider creationism, intelligent design, and alternative myths as alternatives to science in the science classroom. The Panda’s Thumb has an excellent post here, which includes contact information for the Lousiana legislature. This strategy worked last time: the Florida House cited a massive letter writing campaign as part of the reason they abandoned a similar bill. Friends, let’s get writing.

I’d love to write a long post about how “academic freedom” is a funny way of putting an agenda which aims to brainwash a generation of children, but sadly, it’s exam time. Maybe tomorrow! In the meantime, I always like it when people read older posts. Check out the “Creationism” tag. And, below the line, a letter I sent to Florida when it considered this option. It wouldn’t be on point, but maybe some of the arguments would be.

It’s not some of my best writing, but I hope you enjoy.

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Is anyone else seeing only one column, here, and super-huge text?

Update: I love the WordPress tech support.  They’re incredibly helpful.  And a note to other writers - if some of your text becomes spontaneously bigger at some point, the culprit might be an extra <div> tag lying around!

(I took this picture at the People’s protest outside of the UN during Ahmadinejad’s NY visit in September 2007)

From an email sent by my friend over at the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran:

Dear friends;

This is a great victory.

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