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For those of us who care deeply about science literacy and who work to create an appropriate, and respectful, understanding between science and religion, Rick Perry’s entry into the Republican presidential race offers both good and bad news.
On the positive side, Perry has decided not to run away from his past. With the exception of his position on vaccinations for the human papillomavirus, he is embracing rather than distancing himself from his previous record making it very easy to recognize where he stands.
On the negative side, his past record clearly demonstrates both a dangerous misunderstanding of the nature of science and a willingness to jettison science when its conclusions are at odds with his politics.
Perry’s stance on the theory of evolution is especially troubling and emblematic of his overall disdain for modern science. Simply put, Perry’s position either represents willful ignorance of both science and the law or demonstrates that he lacks basic knowledge that fifth graders should have.
Just this past Thursday in New Hampshire, in response to a child’s question, Perry described evolution as “a theory that’s out there” and one that’s “got some gaps in it.” His latest statement is remarkably similar to what his office wrote to a Texas voter in 2006 when questioned about intelligent design: “Recognizing that evolution is a theory, and not claimed by anyone to be more than that, the governor believes it would be a disservice to our children to teach them only one theory on the origin of our existence without recognizing other scientific theories worth consideration.”
As any well-educated fifth grader could tell you, in science, a “theory” is as good as it

Happy Wednesday everyone, here’s my Top 5 for August 24, 2011 from Len Berman at www.ThatsSports.com.
1. Quick Hits
Legendary Tennessee women’s basketball coach, 59-year-old Pat Summitt, is diagnosed with early signs of dementia. She’s getting ready to coach her 38th season with the Vols.
Alex Rodriguez will meet with baseball officials Friday to discuss his participation in poker games.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick has a good idea. He says make the extra point a challenge, not a

When I read today about Rev. Al Sharpton taking over as the 6 pm host of “Politics Nation” on MSNBC, my first thought was “Finally, they made a decision.” It took some time, but after a while, the network confirmed the move that has been the source of a tremendous amount of speculation over the past several weeks.
I’ve been on Al Sharpton’s radio show at least 80 times during the last two years. I’ve also sat with him for hours at a time in private conversation. I can confirm that he is an outstanding host, and fully capable of giving MSNBC their money’s worth in nearly every conceivable

Dear fellow television addicts viewers: We’ve received awful news. Researchers in Australia have deduced that for every hour of TV we watch, we’re shortening our lifespan by 22 minutes. Last year on our own shores, the Nielsen organization concluded that the average American watches 35 hours of TV per week.
That’s 1,820 hours of TV-viewing per

The fruits and wine that come from the Western Cape are enjoyed by consumers around the world and generate billions of rand for South Africa’s economy, yet the farmworkers who help produce these goods are denied basic human rights.
Human Rights Watch found that workers often live in substandard homes. One farmworker explained that he and his family had lived in a former pig stall for more than 10 years with no electricity, water or adequate protection from the rain.
Farmworkers fear being evicted from their homes on farms when they become too old or sick to work, with nowhere to go after decades of labor.
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“Are you going to the Schoenbaum’s?” I asked my old friend Marcy. For a moment the question hung in the air, finally she answered, “I won’t be there, but my husband will.” Since when did Michael become the “husband?” Since I became the not-so-gay divorce, and in married America, there’s something very wrong with that.
During my twenty-year marriage, whether u deux or flying solo, as one half of a couple, socializing was pretty much a sexless affair. I was just as likely to be invited to join the boys at the poker table as I was to do lunch with the girls. Dads called to arrange play dates, emailed silly jokes, and wrote snarky comments on my Facebook

Just when everyone on the East coast was bracing for a major hurricane, the ground shifted underneath them — literally. A rare 5.8 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Mineral, Virginia struck in the middle of a workday afternoon, affecting some 12 million people from North Carolina to Toronto.
Although, the quake caused minimal damage to person or property, it rattled many Americans, especially since the timing of its occurrence was so close to the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001.
Anxiety is a normal response to a frightening situation — whether it’s an earthquake, threatened hurricane, or terrorist threat. It is our body’s way of preparing us to deal with perceived

By John Aloysius Farrell, Ben Wieder and Evan Bush, iWatch NewsKoch Industries, a leader of industry resistance to proposed post-9/11 anti-terrorism safeguards at petrochemical plants, owns 56 facilities using hazardous chemicals that put 4.8 million Americans who live nearby at risk. Schools, homes, hospitals, office parks, churches, recreation areas, nursing homes and daycare facilities dot the properties that surround the Koch plants. In the government’s “worst case” scenarios, the millions working or living near the plants could be threatened by explosions, chemical spills or clouds of deadly gas, federal records show. Among the hazardous chemicals stored and used at Koch sites are formaldehyde, chlorine, anhydrous ammonia and hydrogen

In the dog days of summer and in the aftermath of the unusual earthquake that hit the Washington area and other parts of the East Coast, maybe it’s time to play a little parlor game related to next year’s presidential election and a major disruption that just might occur. I am talking about the increasing probability that a serious independent third-party run might just occur. And by the manner in which former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is conducting himself this week in high-profile criticizing of his own party, he and his campaign might also be eying this probability.
Let me set the table on this, and see what it just might tell us. Today, President Obama’s Gallup approval ratings are at an all-time low (38

Though they may have you subconsciously biting your nails, lighting up after lunch or grabbing one more fistful of fries, your bad habits didn’t start out bad. There was motivation behind them.
“All habits — even bad habits — start out as true friends. They help, or helped, us deal with something,” said Meg Selig, a counselor and author of “Changepower! 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success.”
Many habits help us regulate our moods, she says, so changing could leave us without a way to feel good.
When you “want” chocolate to “feel better,” for example, you don’t really want chocolate. “You want a dopamine release,” said Marie-Josee Shaar, founder of Smarts and Stamina in Pennsylvania.
Dopamine is a chemical that makes you feel good, and chocolate helps your body release

This week’s vlog will help you see abundance in others as a reflection of your own abundance. Rather than compare, attack and judge those who have something you want, it’s time to celebrate their successes.
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Last week, I was in Atlanta for a day. I went directly from the airport to meet Congressman John Lewis at the King Center, where he and I were to be filmed for a program that Henry Lewis Gates is putting together about our ancestry. As I juggled cell phones dealing with urgencies back in Newark, I approached the visitor’s center and instantly felt that I was upon hallowed ground. Amidst greeting producers, the cameraman, museum staff and others, I gathered the gravity of the

After decades in the music industry, I’ve seen just about everything there is to see. I’ve seen talented people become superstars in a matter of weeks, and the joys and thrills of sudden fame.
But great talent often comes with great struggle, and the intensely private pain of not knowing how to cope with all of fame’s demands. Many of my closest friends have struggled with drug addiction over the years. Some have worked through it and survived, but others weren’t as

Matthew 16:21-28 confronts us with the gap between Jesus’ gruesome fate and our own modest discipleship. Jesus’ verbs say it all. Deny the self, take up the cross, follow Christ. Moreover, only in losing one’s life — the primary meaning of apollymi is to destroy — one may save

Arizona recently asked the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of SB1070, their state-passed anti-immigrant legislation. These state-passed immigration laws have been in the news a lot lately, not too long ago I was on Fox News debating Dan Stein, President of F.A.I.R. on Alabama’s anti-immigrant legislation. What is fascinating about all of this is that no matter how pitched the arguments, whether it be between pundits, states and the federal government, at the end of the day once Congress passes comprehensive immigration legislation, none of these state-passed laws will mean anything.
States are well within their rights to challenge the federal

Last Friday, the “West Memphis Three” were released after nearly twenty years in prison. Recently granted a new trial for the 1993 murder of three young boys, prosecutors felt there was not enough evidence to secure a conviction. At the original trial, it was claimed that the victims were murdered as part of a satanic ritual, a claim so outrageous that even some of the victims’ own families now believe the men are innocent.
Had the men not won the appeal that eventually led to their release, one of them, Damien Echols, would probably have been

Citizens analyze the official documents of the primary election, and they are finding irregularities. First drafts of transparency, open government and the power to work a lot with very little data.
Last Sunday, Argentina’s President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner won the country’s first national primary election. She garnered 50% of the votes, 38 percentage points ahead of her closest rival, Ricardo Alfonsn.
While politicians and analysts publish all sorts of interpretations of the results in the media, a group of citizens are changing the course of the history of democracy in Argentina through the website Wikivotos.org, which they are using to research and publish irregularities in the vote

They will get away with it, at least in this life. “They” are the Wall Street usurers, people of a sort condemned in Scripture, who have brought more misery to this nation than we have known since the Great Depression. “They” will not suffer for their crimes because they have a majority ownership position in our political system. That is the meaning of the banking plea bargain that the Obama administration is pressuring state attorneys general to negotiate with the titans of the financial

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A Conversation with Lindsey Buckingham
Mike Ragogna: Lindsey, how are you?
Lindsey Buckingham: Good. How are you?
MR: I’m doing fine. It’s an honor to speak to you, sir.
LB: Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
MR: I’ve been a fan since your first solo album, Law And

The Help surprised some people that Southern whites could treat their servants with so much inhumanity in the 1960′s. I was shocked by a few specific incidents, but not surprised. I saw it close up as a child. Not in Jackson, Miss., where the story is set, but in my hometown of Beverly Hills where the help was almost exclusively ‘negro,’ before the Black Power Movement and the influx of Hispanic housekeepers and nannies in the late 70′s and early 80′s.
My overly emotional reaction to the film puzzled

I stood on the sidewalk and just watched as they put a bulldozer through my own childhood, to the place I called home…
I couldn’t take my eyes of the place where I had literally spent 95 percent of my childhood, the stone porch where my cousins and I sat listening to our aunts and watching the people pass by, to where we hung off the sides, giving our aunts heart attacks because they were worried we’d crack our heads open on the sidewalk beneath us..
I saw a foreman throw away the screen door I had literally run to when I was upset and misjudged the distance from the top step to the door and where I’d accidentally closed the door on my cousin’s fingers… repeatedly.
In my mind’s eye, I saw my two cousins and I sitting on the picnic table in the yard as kids laughing about who knows what… two little boys and a girl… the girl was talking a mile a minute and the boys were absorbed in whatever she was planning, then suddenly the older of the two boys slapped the girl in the leg and yelled “You’re it!” and ran off…
I cast my eyes to the top of the house to those familiar three windows, and remembered how many times we hid up in my aunt’s bedroom or playing gymnastics, trying to leap from the stairs to the banister but always missing and dropped like a stone on the steep

Four years ago on a summer night, I stood in line at a Capitola, California, City Council meeting with my friend Laura Kasa, the brand new Executive Director of Save Our Shores. We were waiting our turns, along with dozens of other citizens, to share our allotted three minutes about why a Styrofoam ban made sense. Kids, parents, restauranteurs, marine biologists like myself and ocean advocates like Laura each added a grain of sand to the heap of facts, opinions and passionate pleas for our coast and ocean.
If you had to take a poll right then and there, you’d say Styrofoam (technically it’s expanded polystyrene, or EPS, a kind of plastic) was on its way out.
But then a man in a suit and tie — the only person in the room dressed so formally — stood up. He had listened to what many in this idyllic seaside surf community wanted and had patiently waited all night for his turn to let the council know what the plastics industry wanted.
With the convincing deftness, confidence and experience of a million dollar trial lawyer, he described the environmental virtues, future plans for recycling and wholesomeness of a life more

The Oakland Raiders’ prior draft mistakes make it easy to assume Terrelle Pryor is another draft mistake.
The Raiders gave up next year’s third-round draft pick to select the former Ohio State quarterback in this year’s supplemental draft. The Raiders already didn’t have a second- or fourth-round pick in the 2012 draft, so drafting Pryor leaves the Raiders without a draft pick between the first and fifth rounds.
After Pryor ran his 40-yard dash in the 4.3-4.4 second range at his pro day, it was almost a foregone conclusion the Raiders would draft him. Three things in life are certain: death, taxes and Al Davis falling in love with fast