On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
from SLATE:
Rep. Paul Broun, who serves on the House Science Committee, told a
church-sponsored banquet in his home state of Georgia that the
theories of evolution and the big bang are “lies straight from the
pit of hell.”
Leaving aside the "pit of hell" image, he's certainly at least half-
right--the "big bang" part.
But this is nothing compared to Paul Krugman's assertion in today's NY
TIMES that the September unemployment rate decline reflects a labor
force whose growth has declined drastically because of all the "baby
boomers" reaching retirement age. Anyone who reached the age of 65
(an age beyond which many would, albeit unwillingly, still be looking
for work if jobs were available) in September would have been
conceived in 1946, long before any onset of a "baby boom!"
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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