Weekend Repeater

The pursuit of Spring and it's cleaning continues this weekend, as all things old are new again still old and won't go away. Like that fact that Florida must constantly be on the brink of total social and civil collapse. In less than a day I've seen three separate stories about the state's government officials and their parade of time wasting and idiotic legislation, and I worry that if they're not entirely as ass-backwards with their thoughts and justification that they really do represent the will and wants of the people.

The latest insult to the process of legislation would allow public school teachers to challenge evolution with "scientific information" under a bill that passed their senate. How? The measure would prohibit school officials from punishing teachers who offer opposing views to evolution, like intelligent design or biblical theories, since the bill loosely defines the permitted information to include the ambiguous "germane current facts" and "data".

Supporters say the Evolution Academic Freedom Act would simply allow a free exchange of ideas that question as well as support evolution. "Could it be? Can't we ask that question?" No, you fucking idiots, you can't. The key issue is the bill would ultimately permit the teaching of creationism and intelligent design - and holding that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an "intelligent cause'' or more blatantly, were created by God doesn't belong in the public school system. Period. And yet, this debate shows up every few months in the Bible Belt like a rash on a frat boy's junk.

I'm putting it out there for debate - drop Florida from the union and put Puerto Rico in. You don't even have to change the flag! Think about it... And just to balance it out with something that won't make you want to crawl inside your head and die, here's Fugazi and "Repeater"