Texas: the Stupid march again

Remember a few months ago when I posted a link concerning creationist efforts to debase science education in Texas?

They changed targets. And unsuprisingly, the incredibly suspect Don McLeroy is in on them both, according to Ed's post:

Even worse than Ames is Peter Morrison, a member of the Lumberton Independent School District Board of Trustees in Texas. He was appointed to the curriculum writing committee by fellow wingnut Don McLeroy and a brief look at some of his loopy statements reveals why.

Read the link, but be forewarned: most people are going to feel their IQs being crushed under the weight of so much fermented BS.

Chelios, and other things hockey

Yeah, I know that the Red Wings released him. I know he's available. And I know he has cache for being on the 'Hawks the previous time they were a consistently competitive team.

That being said, anyone who tells me with a straight face that putting a 47-year-old veteran who's been playing since 1985 on a team full of players who hadn't even been born yet is a good idea is not real bright. Not unless you intend to make him an assistant coach and keep his ice time low, of course.  

But, hey! This guy got some serious publicity this week! 

And these guys got in the HHOF. I'm sure someone's grousing about their collective inability to play defense (especially Leetch), but what the hey - they all came up and played in an offensive-minded era where "D" usually stood for "duck" - as in what you told the goalie when they played the Oilers, Penguins or any of those other teams capable of scoring over 350 goals a seaon back then.    

Neda

I suppose that there's somebody out there, somewhere, who thinks that gunning down unarmed women is perfectly acceptable.

Then again, there are people in the world who think that there was no Holocaust.

Oh. Wait. One of those guys might be one and the same - and he might ostensibly be in charge of the country where the above event happened.  

"Sickening" isn't the word for it.

(NOTE:  I decided not to put up a link to the video in question just because of the effect it had on me at work; although I didn't burst into obscenities at the [expletive] who shot her, I came damn close. Some things do have the capacity to cause visceral reactions in everyone, I guess.)

Now reading...

All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman. 

(Baldfaced admission: how I forgot I had that and paperback copies of The World Inside by Robert Silverberg and Cryptozoic by Brian W. Aldiss is beyond me;  maybe I am working too damn hard these days...)

Why?

Anyone who dares to question why I don't go to many theatrical releases will have to explain this mistake, and preferably while I'm not holding a blunt, heavy object.

(NOTE: Okay, so it's not as bad a film purportedly based on a PKD work as, say, Imposter or Paycheck were. I still have an allergy to any PKD film that isn't titled Blade Runner or Minority Report. I have my reasons.)

Further explanation of the previous post

Land of the Lost. The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.

And further dreck based on old television series like The Beverly Hillbillies, The Honeymooners and - urp! - both of the Flintstones films.

Remakes are - by and large - very, very bad films made by very, very bad people intent on earning very, very good money by underestimating the intelligence and taste of very, very desperate people looking for entertainment from an art form which is quickly becoming irrelevant due to the prevalence of talentless hacks in the industry.
 
And the suckage will continue as long as we choose to throw down $10 on the latest steaming turd to get, er, "released".

For those of you who actually like that stuff on your shoes, cheers.