Every now and then things work out

  Banner day for common sense. The Supremes declined — for the umpteenth time — to take the Schiavo case. Also, Jeb Bush got shot down in his latest attempt to overrule the state court system in Florida.

Moral: Don’t pick a fight with judges unless you bring some game.

No telling what kind of shenanigans Jeb will pull next in his presidential campaign — uh, I mean his selfless drive to keep “the culture of life” alive — but for now, right this minute, sanity has prevailed. Allelujah, indeed.

Sliding under the radar — and to me the happiest news of the day — was the decision by the IMAX theatre in Fort Worth, Texas, to go ahead and show a new IMAX film about volcanoes. Yes, an IMAX film about volcanoes that — shudder — mentioned evolution. Oh, I mean Evil-lution.

Last week the Fort Worth theatre, along with the ones in Charlotte and Charleston, decided to preempt possible protests by the Bible-thumping torch-and-pitchfork crowd by just not showing the damn movie at all.

Here’s hoping that Fort Worth’s attack of common sense will spread to Charlotte and Charleston. I’m not holding my breath, but a fool can dream.

Isn’t it wonderfully ironic that the backward creationist science-haters, by refusing to evolve as thinking, rational humans, will eventually prove Darwin’s theory right by making themselves extinct?

God knew what she was doing when she invented evolution.

Email Article       Previous entry:  Vegetative States of America  |  Next entry:  This is how it starts