I suspect that this poll has spread far beyond Dover, PA. The question:
Do you think schools should allow a textbook that teaches the concept of a divine creator to be used in a biology class?On Thursday, 9 September 2004 at 03:55:50 GMT the vote is 453 No to 328 yes.
This article has an interesting discussion of the relation of childhood television watching to the increase in ADHD cases:
�The study revealed that each hour of television watched per day at ages 1 through 3 increases the risk of attention problems by almost 10 percent at age 7,�…Plenty of debate in the article.
Jessa Crispin apparently has been reading the Republican platform (94 pages). To be honest I haven’t read a party platform in years and, while I suspect that there is a tremendous amount of bloggable material in each parties platform, I don’t plan to start now. In a nutshell, they are laundry lists of things the federal government shouldn’t be involved in at all.
However, I agree with both Jessa and Jaquandor that this item from page 56 is strangely put:
Our Party believes, as does the President, that reading is the new civil right.The new civil right? Puzzling to say the least.
Every child must be able to read by the end of the third grade.But I am sure that there are some children who, though capable of reading, just will not progress that fast.
But, hey, the University of Nigeria offers courses that might help a certain Harvard attendee balance his budget. For instance, Retail Management 604:
Learn the secrets of purchasing Hermes and Louis Vuiton leather goods for less than $1.00 each and reselling them for over $100!Just like oil wells!
There is some truth to Trish Wilson’s point:
…quite a bit of psychology is really about the people with power regulating the behavior of the people they wish to control.Hmmm, this makes me think about all those drugged school kids.