Another MinnSat post

I think they let an intern write Opinuendo this week. Further speculation Wegeth not, but the reporting on the ID debate at St. Thomas’s law school is a bit more even handed and less snarky than the Opinuendo I remember.

Picking up after Casey Luskin’s weasel points:

Luskin was followed by Peter Hess, a theologian, author of “Catholicism and Science” and a defender of teaching evolution in schools. He said Intelligent Design is “not science” but is “poor theology.” He said it presents God as a “mere designer, and not a very good one at that,” responsible for “eons of suffering” such as genetic diseases and praying mantises that mix courtship with cannibalism.

He said intelligent design arose from the Protestant evangelical movement, and that mainline churches do not see evolution as conflicting with their beliefs. He said the alternative to seeing God as a meddling “designer” is to see “God remaining hidden, indecipherable, behind the veil of nature.”

Hess said “theistic evolutionists” like himself are comfortable with an “unimaginably vast, dynamic, ancient, evolving universe.” He added: “If we accept the idea of creation at all, why can’t we accept the autonomy … of what has been created?”

This segment could easily have been a front-page story, but what would be the fun in letting Christianists trip over an article that undercuts their most cherished nonsense.

More amazingly, this he said/he saidistic recounting was preceded by an item on St. Paul Schools buying and eating locally. Like 55 tons worth of produce a year. St. Paul Schools has busted its ass to get kids to eat right, and they’re still serving my favorite client’s sweet and sour chicken and vegetables to the kids. Amazingly, kids will eat vegetables if you glaze them with a sweet sauce and then decline to overcook them.

Again, a story that belonged on the front page or, as I suspect, an Opinuendo column guest-written by an intern or staffer with very different ideas as to what news content the PiPress should be shoveling.

I would love to see more like this, even if only through the retro-rectally-fitted lens of Opinuendo’s forcibly rhymed commentary (which was especially forced in this column, further leading me to suspect an intern with taste as opposed to a libertarian with an agenda).

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Another debate, this one in D.C. at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly where neocon dweeb Jamie Kirchick and mainstream media douche Joe Klein went hammer and tong on each other.

Fun times, but not half so much as reading about Tea Partiers slinging embezzlement accusations at each other. All part of the pep rally leading up to today’s burning in effigy of Nancy Pelosi in Virginia.

In other news of interest to wingnuts, Richard Viguerie has put out an alert to let Catholics know that the mother church underwrites ACORN. The mouth-breathing argument made is that the Catholics don’t actually give donations to the poor. They give them to organizations that help the poor. Two different things entirely to Viguerie who, in his defense, is used to seeing small donations routinely siphoned off into the office frappuccino fund.

Frappuccino being the name Viguerie’s staff gave to the boss’s Lincoln Navigator but hey, he bought it used from Steve Buyer’s Frontier Foundation.

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Republican-supported/anointed “Democratic” mayoral candidate Eva Ng is being accused of campaign finance improprieties, the most serious of which was not paying her former campaign manager who has now made these and other allegations.

For some reason City Hall Scoop thinks the DFL should have caught this. ??!! When you’re leading in all the polls 2-1, why go negative?

St. Paul ain’t Chicago. We only sling it when it’s close.

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MnIndy found this great poster of Al and Norm in Mad Magazine.

Looking at the symmetrical layout, I assumed it was one of Mad’s patented “fold-ins.” So I printed it out and tried folding it in. No go. Not unless the point is create a really funky looking half-porcelain buttplug and no, that’s not a cheap shot:

I’m sure it would have helped had I used a color printer, but either this is a buttplug joke, or it wasn’t a fold-in.

I’m no expert, but it sure looks like a buttplug to me.

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Skipping over the enormous reservoir of bad puns implicit in MAPE’s endorsement of Margaret Anderson Kelliher, it’s looking like next year’s DFL endorsement battle for governor is going to be a humdinger.

Which means that the delegate selection process at your precinct caucus will be totally gamed. The state steering committee will loosen the rules and mischief will follow. My personal guesstimate is that one-third to one-half the delegates elected at their caucuses will be stealth supporters of one gubernatorial candidate or another.

That’s how they played it in ‘08, and I doubt even Al Franken knew how many of his people had made it out of the first round on Obama’s coattails.

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Bachmann spouts but her rhetoric doesn’t jibe with the actual report.

It’s like every time she speaks, a flying monkey earns his wings.

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In Bloomington, a petulant American Legion Post 550 has yanked $30,000 in scholarship funds from the Bloomington Schools after they refused to allow the Post to lead the entire school in prayer.

Christian prayer, I’m assuming.

Instead the funds will be sent to a charter school to be named later.

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The Internet is a great place for solutions. Peggy Byrne deserves a MacArthur grant for her Minnesotaunemployed website.

And my thanks for not listing the contact information for my defunct career counseling services. Already her lists are more up-to-date than the Yellow Pages.

But there’s an even more exciting Minnesota employment page: the Wobblies are staffing an office in the old Grain Belt Brewery complex!

They even have their own webpage. I am so pumped to check that place out!

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Etc>:

Bill Kristol on justice, neo-fascist style

Media Matters on the true story of Lou Dobbs’ departure from CNN

Judge tells US Attorney to collect that $20k fine from Orly Taitz

Scott Rothstein may have scammed Florida Republicans for as much as a billion bucks

Self-identified DemocRAT Lanny Davis cuts ties to the Korean Moonie cult owned Washington Times following their decision to fire Lanny’s favorite wingnut editors

Because you really shouldn’t make up your mind until after you’ve heard the arguments for child labor

Obviously we need longer straws

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UPDATE: Whoops. I guess no one checks the other blog for music unless I link to it from here.

Music. Over there.

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