Via Spiced Sass…
Butterflies and Wheels critiques a Michael Behe NYT Commentary explaining ID. Note that I use the word “critique” instead of the more apt term “opens a can of whoopass on“.
I can summarize Behe’s “argument” in two words: Blind Watchmaker. Anyone who’s read Richard Dawkin’s book titled that will know how to refute Behe’s position.
Robert Locke has an excellent piece on modern art, Mausoleum of Modern Art (link).
But they will have to face the truth sooner or later. Grandpa’s Weimar-era clichés are not going to be able to pretend they are the latest thing forever. Worse, the great pretender to the modernist throne, postmodernism, has utterly failed to take up modernism’s banner as the essential cultural expression of advanced humanity. Despite launching wildly histrionic gesture after gesture in the sphere of architecture, in art it has only managed to endlessly recycle technically hypertrophied later mannerist neo-Dada, to use the precisely correct art historical terminology. The Shock of the New has given way to the numbing familiarity of the ceremonial Violating of the Taboos, as if art were an angry pagan god needing an endless supply of sacrificial virgins to be palliated.
I don’t know about you, but I like my art (link) to be (link) beautiful (link)to look at (link). Yes, I know, I know… I am such a traditionalist.
Veteran Democrat bails out on party (link)
My family has voted Democrat since before the Great Depression. I grew up believing that FDR and JFK were American saints since both were spoken about in hushed tones and given the same reverence as those I learned about in Catholic school.
However, I now realize that I no longer subscribe to the ideals held by the party, as evidenced by Michael Moore and Jimmy Carter’s prominent place in the Kerry campaign, and Howard Dean’s takeover of the DNC. The party of FDR and JFK no longer exists. The Democratic Party has become a party afraid of change, afraid of fighting injustice in the world, and afraid of standing up to its corporate benefactors that profit from its stances on illegal immigration and tort reform.
While I do not agree with 100% of the Republican platform, I do see it as a progressive party that is willing to consider my opinions and is not beholden to reactionary ideologues like Carter, Moore and Dean. The party has a fetishistic devotion to the United Nations - an organization where the majority of members are non-democratic. It reveres people like Moore - who compared the murderers in Iraq, the ones who behead civilians and force retarded children to be suicide bombers, to America’s Minutemen, and Jeanine Garofalo - who compared the “thumbs-up” sign of the Iraqi voters to Nazi “Heil Hitlers.” Now it is about to elevate Dean to head its National Committee - a man who once said that Osama Bin Laden was innocent until proven guilty of the 9-11 attacks.
I hope to someday return to the party, but it will only be once it has come to its senses which it has obviously lost.
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