now the 'intelligent design' debate is on in the US and something like
2/3rds of americans think creationism should be taught in schools;
meanwhile, Bush wants to spend billions going to the moon to build roads
there, as if the war and hurricane cleanup weren't costly enough and the
gap between rich and poor not a shameful howling chasm. (not that canada
is any better, today I read that we've decided to share nuclear technology
with, wait for it...India, just as the liberals announce no new money for
aboriginal health and communities. and we're just itching to ramp up trade
with China, that bastion of freedoms). technofetishism and religion go
hand in hand, and our leaders evidently wish to kill us all on the way to
destroying our ability to reason. Michael Ignatief advises the democrats,
possibly the most useless party in the history of mankind, not to talk
down to religious folks. but that would require a saintliness I for one do
not possess....
