Go ask Alice, I think she'll know...
-What, no flat earth?-
A member of the Texas House, Warren Chisum, has circulated a Georgia legislator's call for ending the teaching of evolution in schools. Nothing new there. His reasoning is fun, though. Evolution "is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate 'creation scenario' of the Pharisee Religion," writes Georgia's Ben Bridges. The letter refers to a website calling Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan "Kabbalists" (good trick, seeing that Sagan's atheism was famous). As if the raw antisemitism weren't enough, the site referred to is fixedearth.com, which argues that the sun orbits the Earth. Proof positive that you don't have to be extremely smart to get elected in Texas or Georgia and that some in the GOP take the renaissance as a loss. (Dallas Morning News, via Jerad at CG)
-There's this thing called a 'spotter'-
A canadian teen's attempt to mark a bridge with graffiti didn't go well. He had a plan to hit a spot that no one else could get to and put it in action. "He was dangling by a rope for two hours, upside down in the dark from a bridge, half-naked in -20 C weather." The plan didn't go the way he'd expected. I can't do it justice as a blurb, just go read the story. (Hamilton Spectator)
-If it were a Chanel suit, then it'd be a different story-
A Wellington, New Zealand lawyer was charged with contempt after showing up in court dressed as Alice -- as in Alice in Wonderland. Rob Moodie's attire was a "protest against what he said was New Zealand's overly-masculine judiciary..." He might have a point, but it's pretty hard to get someone to take you seriously when you're dressed like a character in a kids' story. On ther other hand, Moodie was given an "award for the most bizarre conduct by a lawyer in 2006 by London's The Times newspaper." Just what clients want to see on your wall... (AP)
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