the Kansas Board of Education, seeking perhaps to reclaim their pre-Brown glory days, has once again placed the pseudo-science of "Intelligent Design" back into classrooms. if you have family or friends with children in those public schools, you might advise them to head somewhere with a real education system. like New Orleans.

i've written else about the possibility of civil strife between religious fundamentalists and political secularists in this country. this decision, if left intact by the citizens of Kansas (not to mention their courts who will probably be dealing with it right after breakfast), may be a cultural equivalent to Bloody Kansas. if religion can replace science, if any particular religion can be made official as is being attempted with fundamentalist Christianity in this decision, then our country's Constitutional foundation is in danger. this is not about science; this is about a religion that has absorbed the messianiac message of its historic leader to the point that every believer is now Christ on earth. they can't die for each other's sins, but they can proclaim themselves the last of the true believers and demand that the rest of the world bow down to their god -- who no longer resides in heaven but only in their churches.

this is so unAmerican, i could spit.