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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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The entertainment company headed by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson agreed yesterday to buy Dorothy Hamill's Ice Capades, the skating road show rescued last year by the Olympic gold medalist. International Family Entertainment Inc., which owns the Family Channel cable network, declined to disclose how much it paid for the show and related assets owned by the figure skater and her husband, physician Kenneth Forsythe. The deal expands International Family's interests in live entertainment while providing a new source of material for programs that can be shown on broadcast or cable television here or abroad and on home video. International Family launched a live entertainment division last year with its purchase of three theaters in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where it produces live musical variety shows. 'This agreement will add another facet to our company's philosophy of supplying high-quality, family-oriented entertainment and programming to America and the world,' said Tim Robertson, chief executive and president. His father Pat is chairman of International Family Entertainment.
[San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 1994 (AP)]
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May 31, 2007
Category: Politics
Errm, why haven't we started the impeachment proceedings on George W. Bush yet? Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!"...
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Category: Creationism
Earlier, I was mildly perturbed that Canada was leading my country in the cheesy science "museum" race; this is, of course, a race to the bottom. Scott Hatfield has come to my rescue, though, and sent in some photos of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:57 PM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Ha ha, pathetic Canadians. They've put up their own creation "museum"—just look at it. It's feeble. It's like someone took a cheap suburban ranch-style home and put a sign on it and started charging admission to come take a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:22 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Laura Mallory wants to ban the Harry Potter books from public schools, and she took her case to court. This is a perfect example of a mixed message: At Tuesday's hearing, Mallory argued in part that witchcraft is a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:30 PM • 86 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Suddenly, it makes sense. Schizophrenia is a methodology. Now we also know who is watching....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:56 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Politics
Sam Brownback has an op-ed in the NY Times today, in which he explains with much straining at gnats why he was one of the Republicans who did not believe in evolution. Short summary: he reveals his own misconceptions...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:13 PM • 192 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
Long time readers will know how fond I am of the Index to Creationist Claims, a long list of common creationist arguments linked to short, pithy rebuttals with references. Now the gang at Gristmill have done the same thing for...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:56 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
If you're concerned about the military appropriation of an important fossil site, here's more information. It's not just some old rocks, it's a historical and ecologically significant site that's about to be overrun by a bloated military. The Picket Wire...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:31 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
People keep > Professors Who Blog > May 15, 2007" href="http://techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196604461">keep interviewing me for articles on academic blogging. I'm always giving the same answers. I've got to start getting more creative—next time, I'm going to have to say something about...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:40 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I'm not a fanatic about gun control—guns are dangerous tools, but so are chainsaws—but sometimes…man, sometimes I think we ought to put more restrictions on them to keep them out of the hands of dangerously stupid people. Take this story,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 143 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2007
Category: Creationism • Media
Salon has just published their report on Ken Ham's creation "museum", by author Gordy Slack, who has just released a book on the Dover trial. I haven't read the book, although it was on my list to pick up this...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:30 PM • 139 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Entertainment • Religion • Stupidity
Arrrr, curse ye, jpf. How dare you reveal this abomination to me? What's this crazy born-again doing reviewing a pirate movie as a justification for his dogma? But back to Jack for a second — sorry, Captain Jack. I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:08 PM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Minuscule, even. Flea-sized. How else am I to interpret Dinesh D'Souza's challenge that he should pick on someone his own size, meaning D'Souza? I've heard D'Souza. He's a babbling pipsqueak. But now he thinks he is a worthy opponent to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:39 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
We're seeing a lot of news about Ken Ham's creationist lie, this so-called "museum" he has built out in Kentucky. What we're not seeing from our media is any scrutiny of the finances behind the construction, or behind the evangelical...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:05 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Orac has the latest news on the Tripoli Six, the health care workers who were falsely accused of spreading AIDS in a Libyan hospital and were sentenced to death. The good news is that they aren't dead yet, the Libyan...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:22 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Dinosaurs wore polyester leisure suits! This discovery pegs the Cretaceous at about 1970, so we're going to have to readjust the timescale everywhere. (via Zeno)...
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