From: "Dave Ings" 

Terrific read, thanks for posting.

But it occurs to me one could have written a very similar article about
almost any time during the past century or two. Well written cranky tomes
about why/how things are totally messed up aren't exactly new.
--
Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
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> This is a long article from Esquire, by Charles Pierce.  He is a great
> writer who gets his point across with intelligence and wit.  It is well
> worth reading the whole thing.  It is not wholly about ID, but treats it
> as a symptom of Idiot America.
>
> Esquire put it behind a subscription wall, but this guy thoughtfully
> reprinted the whole thing.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8jh6n
>
> Here's a teaser:
>
> =====
> Fights over evolution-- and its faddish new camouflage, intelligent
> design, a pseudoscience that posits without proof or method that
> science is inadequate to explain existence and that supernatural causes
> must be considered-- roil up school districts across the country. The
> president of the United States announces that he believes ID ought to be
> taught in the public schools on an equal footing with the theory of
> evolution. And in Dover, Pennsylvania, during one of these many
> controversies, a pastor named Ray Mummert delivers the line that both ends
> our tour and, in every real sense, sums it up:
>
> "We've been attacked," he says, "by the intelligent,
educated segment of
> the culture."
>
> And there it is.
> =====
>
>
> --
> Steve 
> http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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