Category: Politics

I’m all for burying the Strib in good sense

PZ wrote an excellent letter to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (the Strib – often cited as the states’s “paper of record”, although I’m guessing that Pharyngula will give them a run for their money) on the many failings of “Intelligent Design” to meet any sensible standards for an explanatory proposition. He also points out that the Strib is calling for letters on the subject by Monday, 2 May.

An invitation to readers on ID/evolution.
We’re interested in your thoughts on intelligent design, evolution, and their proper places in school curricula. Write us an e-mail of no more than 150 words and send it to opinion@startribune.com, with the word “evolution” in the subject line. Be sure to include your name, address and telephone number so we can contact you if we decide to publish your response. Please reply by Monday, May 2.

It would clearly be a fine thing if they hear from a wide variety of folks on this important issue, especially given the enthusiasm of many to subvert our educational institutions. I’ll have to see if I can figure out something useful to say in less than 150 words before Monday.

P.S. Do other people also find it exceedingly painful to have to type the otherwise excellent word “intelligent” when writing out ID? Iggity-iggity-iggty-shiver…

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Doomtree rocked hard! (again)

Just got back from KUMM‘s Tower Awareness Concert (aka March Music Madness, but in late April because of scheduling difficulties) and it was another great KUMM show. Or at least the part that I saw was great. I got there late (lots of reasons) and ended up missing the first two acts – big apologies to The Swiss Army and The Plastic Constellations. I meant well, but life got in the way.

I did catch Doomtree, though, for the second time this semester, and they kicked ass once again. (They headlined the show following the screening of Afropunk back in February.) I really love Doomtree’s stuff because they’re so obviously a collective instead of just a bunch of egos sharing a stage for a while. The raps are tight and politically spikey in all the right ways, and their sound is broad and inclusive in ways that really take advantage of the diversity of the collective.

And for those who think there’s nothing shaking out here in west-central Minnesota, I challenge people out in the “real world” to put on a great show like this and manage to draw a candidate for U.S. Senate and the owner/operators of an organic co-op farm. Not to mention a whole host of past KUMM luminaries and exec staff members (Travis, Gilson, Robert Fitzgerald, Mike D, and more!).

(One could argue, BTW, that the world would be a better place if more candidates for U.S. Senate hung out at college radio concerts, but that discussion will have to wait for another day.)

It was a blast, and major props to all the KUMM folks that pulled it all together and to the musicians for giving us something to jam to. I’ve now showered all the nasty cigarette smell off my person, and I’m taking my tired and happy self to bed. Huzzah!

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